Sarti Antonio e la ballata per chitarra e coltello
Sarti Antonio and the Balad for Guitar and Knife
by Loriano Macchiavelli
In a bar in downtown Bologna, there has been a shooting and the only eye-witness seems unreliable: an old man called Guitar, who gets by playing around in bars. A short while after, The Neapolitan, a mobster from a local gang, is found stabbed to death. The two crimes are connected: The Neapolitan had been the one to fire four shots in the bar and to give Guitar a brand new instrument after his had disappeared. Sarti Antonio’s investigation won’t be easy, especially since his superior is sure to have found the offender: Pasquale, a young foreigner, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The fact that Pasquale’s younger brother’s best friend is Stecco, the teenage boy he has worked with on a previous case, does not help him at all.
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Sarti Antonio and the Balad for Guitar and Knife
by Loriano Macchiavelli
In a bar in downtown Bologna, there has been a shooting and the only eye-witness seems unreliable: an old man called Guitar, who gets by playing around in bars. A short while after, The Neapolitan, a mobster from a local gang, is found stabbed to death. The two crimes are connected: The Neapolitan had been the one to fire four shots in the bar and to give Guitar a brand new instrument after his had disappeared. Sarti Antonio’s investigation won’t be easy, especially since his superior is sure to have found the offender: Pasquale, a young foreigner, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The fact that Pasquale’s younger brother’s best friend is Stecco, the teenage boy he has worked with on a previous case, does not help him at all.
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Fuorigioco
Offside
by Luciana Galli
Kamil Demir, a computer scientist of Turkish origin, moved from Milan to Sicily, to assume the direction of a center for research in the environmental sector. Kamil is not a fundamentalist, but an observant Muslim, who attends the mosque, makes ablutions, saying prayers in Arabic and does not eat meat prohibited. He buys in San Giuliano an empty house and here start to investigate a murder. The story, written with lightness and irony, winds its way through an intricate tale of corruption and involves a series of ambiguous characters, presidents, directors of football clubs, referees sold, judges sleepy, inveterate gamblers, fanatical fans with yellow and red scarves, police distracted, waiter serving croissants stuffed with honey, holders of betting shops and even an accountant who advises against it. The title does not mislead. It is not a history of ball. And even a history of blood , even if there's blood...
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Offside
by Luciana Galli
Kamil Demir, a computer scientist of Turkish origin, moved from Milan to Sicily, to assume the direction of a center for research in the environmental sector. Kamil is not a fundamentalist, but an observant Muslim, who attends the mosque, makes ablutions, saying prayers in Arabic and does not eat meat prohibited. He buys in San Giuliano an empty house and here start to investigate a murder. The story, written with lightness and irony, winds its way through an intricate tale of corruption and involves a series of ambiguous characters, presidents, directors of football clubs, referees sold, judges sleepy, inveterate gamblers, fanatical fans with yellow and red scarves, police distracted, waiter serving croissants stuffed with honey, holders of betting shops and even an accountant who advises against it. The title does not mislead. It is not a history of ball. And even a history of blood , even if there's blood...
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www.dimarsicolibri.it
I Guardiani della Storia
The Guardians of History
by Elisabetta Cametti
Katherine Sinclaire is the brilliant general director of 9Sense Publishing, one of the largest and most powerful publishing conglomerates in the world. One day she is called urgently to the office of her colleague, Bruce Aron, CEO of the 9Sense group, and entering his office she finds him dead. It seems to be a suicide. Before dying, however, Bruce left Katherine a clue, a coded message on a usb key that Katherine is determined to crack.
Thus begins a series of increasingly disturbing events that will lead her to the center of a dark rite from centuries ago belonging to one of the most fascinating civilizations in history: the Etruscans. Katherine will discover that the company she works for is involved in suspicious activities that are tied to important archeological discoveries. She will also discover the existence of a group of priests that protect and preserve a doctrine of the occult...
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The Guardians of History
by Elisabetta Cametti
Katherine Sinclaire is the brilliant general director of 9Sense Publishing, one of the largest and most powerful publishing conglomerates in the world. One day she is called urgently to the office of her colleague, Bruce Aron, CEO of the 9Sense group, and entering his office she finds him dead. It seems to be a suicide. Before dying, however, Bruce left Katherine a clue, a coded message on a usb key that Katherine is determined to crack.
Thus begins a series of increasingly disturbing events that will lead her to the center of a dark rite from centuries ago belonging to one of the most fascinating civilizations in history: the Etruscans. Katherine will discover that the company she works for is involved in suspicious activities that are tied to important archeological discoveries. She will also discover the existence of a group of priests that protect and preserve a doctrine of the occult...
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La strana morte del signor Merello
The Strange Death of Mr. Merello
by Nadia Morbelli
Mr. Merello died eating a salad of poisonous mushrooms? In the hills of southern Piedmont there had not been hardly any mushrooms at all that year! When Nadia hears the story told by the new neighbors who inherited the farm next door to the one owned by her parents, their story does not convince her, not even in the least. If you add the fact that Mr. Merello kept three paintings by the Italian futurist painter Fortunato Depero locked in his basement despite living like a miser, it all seems even more strange.
More hardheaded than a mule, and with her usual impertinent character, Nadia decides to figure out what is going on and, with plates of delicious Ligurian food in front of her that would make a woman with even the strongest willpower faint, she asks around here and there until she ends up exactly in the middle of yet another mystery... and once again, in a sea of troubles!
All of the above takes place much to the chagrin of the very fascinating Inspector Prini, as Nadia’s friendship with him continues to grow closer and closer...
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The Strange Death of Mr. Merello
by Nadia Morbelli
Mr. Merello died eating a salad of poisonous mushrooms? In the hills of southern Piedmont there had not been hardly any mushrooms at all that year! When Nadia hears the story told by the new neighbors who inherited the farm next door to the one owned by her parents, their story does not convince her, not even in the least. If you add the fact that Mr. Merello kept three paintings by the Italian futurist painter Fortunato Depero locked in his basement despite living like a miser, it all seems even more strange.
More hardheaded than a mule, and with her usual impertinent character, Nadia decides to figure out what is going on and, with plates of delicious Ligurian food in front of her that would make a woman with even the strongest willpower faint, she asks around here and there until she ends up exactly in the middle of yet another mystery... and once again, in a sea of troubles!
All of the above takes place much to the chagrin of the very fascinating Inspector Prini, as Nadia’s friendship with him continues to grow closer and closer...
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XYSTICUS
by Francesco Pompò
The Author, an ex-Commissioner of Italian Police, remakes two huge un resolved crimes committed during the nineties (the first in Rome, the second in northern Italy) solving them both by offering his suggestions and intuitions.
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by Francesco Pompò
The Author, an ex-Commissioner of Italian Police, remakes two huge un resolved crimes committed during the nineties (the first in Rome, the second in northern Italy) solving them both by offering his suggestions and intuitions.
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VILLA ARTEMIDE
by Francesco Pompò
The Author, an ex-Commissioner of Italian Police, remakes two huge un resolved crimes committed during the nineties (the first in Rome, the second in northern Italy) solving them both by offering his suggestions and in- tuitions.
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by Francesco Pompò
The Author, an ex-Commissioner of Italian Police, remakes two huge un resolved crimes committed during the nineties (the first in Rome, the second in northern Italy) solving them both by offering his suggestions and in- tuitions.
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Sarti Antonio e il diamante insanguinato
Sarti Antonio and the Bloody Diamond
by Loriano Macchiavelli
It is a sunny Sunday afternoon in Bologna, when the dead body of Rocco Logiudice is found in the locker room of a baseball field. The first and most obvious suspect is Rocco’s biggest rival, Carlo Seghedoni, however his motive is not convincing and the mysterious disappearance of the victim’s bat and hat push Sarti Antonio in a different direction. When the main witness, a teenage boy named Stecco, whom Sarti Antonio has befriended on the baseball field, also disappears, the plot thickens and the sergeant has to rely on his phenomenal memory and on a lot of coffee to solve the mystery.
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Sarti Antonio and the Bloody Diamond
by Loriano Macchiavelli
It is a sunny Sunday afternoon in Bologna, when the dead body of Rocco Logiudice is found in the locker room of a baseball field. The first and most obvious suspect is Rocco’s biggest rival, Carlo Seghedoni, however his motive is not convincing and the mysterious disappearance of the victim’s bat and hat push Sarti Antonio in a different direction. When the main witness, a teenage boy named Stecco, whom Sarti Antonio has befriended on the baseball field, also disappears, the plot thickens and the sergeant has to rely on his phenomenal memory and on a lot of coffee to solve the mystery.
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Sarti Antonio e il mistero cinese
Sarti Antonio and the Chinese Mistery
by Loriano Macchiavelli
During August in Italy, everyone is relaxing on holiday, except for Sarti Antonio, who is working in the scorching heat of a deserted Bologna. A thief breaks into a famous palace and steals an ancient crucifix leaving a Polaroid picture with a mysterious code message scribbled on it: Lh 260 Dc. In the following days, similar thefts occur all over the city. Is the thief mocking the police or is the code an actual lead to follow to solve the crime? Sarti Antonio is groping for clues and relies on the help and enthusiasm of his teenage friend Stecco, who will, unexpectedly, be the one who unveils the truth.
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Sarti Antonio and the Chinese Mistery
by Loriano Macchiavelli
During August in Italy, everyone is relaxing on holiday, except for Sarti Antonio, who is working in the scorching heat of a deserted Bologna. A thief breaks into a famous palace and steals an ancient crucifix leaving a Polaroid picture with a mysterious code message scribbled on it: Lh 260 Dc. In the following days, similar thefts occur all over the city. Is the thief mocking the police or is the code an actual lead to follow to solve the crime? Sarti Antonio is groping for clues and relies on the help and enthusiasm of his teenage friend Stecco, who will, unexpectedly, be the one who unveils the truth.
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Ogni giorno ha il suo male
Every Day has its Evil
by Antonio Fusco
In an imaginary town in Tuscany, Police Commissioner Tommaso Casabona is involved in the discovery of the body of a woman disfigured with acid. Casabona has good heart but his marriage is on the rocks, he has a son who is a drug addict, and a daughter who is studying criminology in Spain. Once the questioning is concluded the investigation grinds to a halt; but then, a second body is found. When a third body is found, it points to the work of a serial killer and the head office sends assistance in the form of Comis- sioner Cristina Belisario. Thanks to a fragment of paper found at the scene, they are led to the text of the Summa Theologica of Saint Thomas Aquinas and to the five W’s: who, what, when, where, why. Casabona and Belisario understand the serial killer’s logic: in each homicide one of the five elements is hidden. In the first they do not know who the woman is; in the second they do not know how the victim was killed; in the third they do not know where the murder took place. If their reasoning is correct, there are still two murders to come, and the ‘when’ and the ‘why’ will be obscured. While they are in Rome, a fourth body is found in Florence but it is not known when the death occurred. This time however the assassin made a mistake: it emerges that the victim was a visitor of porno websites and chat rooms and that he frequently contacted a computer at the city library. Following clues the police discover that their suspect has gone to Barcelona where Casabona’s daughter is living. What will be the motive for the final murder? Who will be the victim? For Casabona it is a race against time
through the streets of Barcelona that will bring him right to the steps of the Sagrada Famìlia.
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Every Day has its Evil
by Antonio Fusco
In an imaginary town in Tuscany, Police Commissioner Tommaso Casabona is involved in the discovery of the body of a woman disfigured with acid. Casabona has good heart but his marriage is on the rocks, he has a son who is a drug addict, and a daughter who is studying criminology in Spain. Once the questioning is concluded the investigation grinds to a halt; but then, a second body is found. When a third body is found, it points to the work of a serial killer and the head office sends assistance in the form of Comis- sioner Cristina Belisario. Thanks to a fragment of paper found at the scene, they are led to the text of the Summa Theologica of Saint Thomas Aquinas and to the five W’s: who, what, when, where, why. Casabona and Belisario understand the serial killer’s logic: in each homicide one of the five elements is hidden. In the first they do not know who the woman is; in the second they do not know how the victim was killed; in the third they do not know where the murder took place. If their reasoning is correct, there are still two murders to come, and the ‘when’ and the ‘why’ will be obscured. While they are in Rome, a fourth body is found in Florence but it is not known when the death occurred. This time however the assassin made a mistake: it emerges that the victim was a visitor of porno websites and chat rooms and that he frequently contacted a computer at the city library. Following clues the police discover that their suspect has gone to Barcelona where Casabona’s daughter is living. What will be the motive for the final murder? Who will be the victim? For Casabona it is a race against time
through the streets of Barcelona that will bring him right to the steps of the Sagrada Famìlia.
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Hanno ammazzato la Marinin
Amin Who Fell Down from the Roof
by Nadia Morbelli
It is an icy cold winter evening as Nadia makes her way down a narrow alley in the freezing air. She stops suddenly: the passageway is blocked by what at first glance seems to be a large garbage bag. As she moves closer however, she realizes with horror that the form curled up on the cobblestones is a boy. A dead boy. Surely an illegal immigrant. Maybe a drug addict, possibly a suicide. Once again Nadia cannot resist the temptation to investigate on her own. By chance days later, at the school of architecture, our protagonist spies a young girl in tears whom she later learns is the sister of the dead boy. Poor Vice Questore Prini, however, is more interested in keeping his curious friend Nadia (is she just a friend?) out of trouble. Because in the end this story is about trouble, lots of trouble, especially if Nadia is being followed by an intriguing fellow who happens to work for Interpol...
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Amin Who Fell Down from the Roof
by Nadia Morbelli
It is an icy cold winter evening as Nadia makes her way down a narrow alley in the freezing air. She stops suddenly: the passageway is blocked by what at first glance seems to be a large garbage bag. As she moves closer however, she realizes with horror that the form curled up on the cobblestones is a boy. A dead boy. Surely an illegal immigrant. Maybe a drug addict, possibly a suicide. Once again Nadia cannot resist the temptation to investigate on her own. By chance days later, at the school of architecture, our protagonist spies a young girl in tears whom she later learns is the sister of the dead boy. Poor Vice Questore Prini, however, is more interested in keeping his curious friend Nadia (is she just a friend?) out of trouble. Because in the end this story is about trouble, lots of trouble, especially if Nadia is being followed by an intriguing fellow who happens to work for Interpol...
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L'amaro dell'immortalita`
by Massimo Tallone
Then the world is really going the wrong way , if Cardo is falling in love , if he is looking for a job, if someone believes that he is the son of an earl, if a liquor makes you live two hundred years. And the cause of it all is an absolute love, shocking, never tried before. Too much, for Cardo, who is forced to conceal his feelings and especially to keep well hidden the object of his passion. But such a metamorphosis is suspected to Angela, who is perhaps a little jealous. Meanwhile, the work calls and Cardo runs to Monforte, on invitation of Rombo, a new bowling friend. He should paint a trompe l' oeil in a villa surrounded by vineyards. From that moment misunderstandings chase each other, life and death are ambiguous, men and animals are compared, present merges with the past and from Monforte we climb to Bairo, in the Canavese , where a mysterious elixir takes the place of Nebbiolo ... And once again, Cardo is in trouble , between those who want to burn it and who tries to drown him to wrest a secret that he ignores ... Will his new love be able to save him?
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by Massimo Tallone
Then the world is really going the wrong way , if Cardo is falling in love , if he is looking for a job, if someone believes that he is the son of an earl, if a liquor makes you live two hundred years. And the cause of it all is an absolute love, shocking, never tried before. Too much, for Cardo, who is forced to conceal his feelings and especially to keep well hidden the object of his passion. But such a metamorphosis is suspected to Angela, who is perhaps a little jealous. Meanwhile, the work calls and Cardo runs to Monforte, on invitation of Rombo, a new bowling friend. He should paint a trompe l' oeil in a villa surrounded by vineyards. From that moment misunderstandings chase each other, life and death are ambiguous, men and animals are compared, present merges with the past and from Monforte we climb to Bairo, in the Canavese , where a mysterious elixir takes the place of Nebbiolo ... And once again, Cardo is in trouble , between those who want to burn it and who tries to drown him to wrest a secret that he ignores ... Will his new love be able to save him?
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Bologna destinazione notte
by Roberto Carboni
"The town, in a thriller, is the glass that holds the wine. In a Noir is the wine itself ." So, with a metaphor, Roberto Carboni, gives a soul to his latest book, “Bologna. Destinazione Notte” (Fratelli Frilli Editori) . Until a few weeks ago he was a taxi driver for profession, creative writing teacher for passion, author of noir novels by vocation, Carboni, was born in 1964, lives in Sasso Marconi, he has set his book in Bologna. "It ' a strange city, warm in the day and mysterious in the night, ideal for developing a noir ." It is on this concept, Noir , which Carboni puts the accent. "Many confuse it with the thriller, but it is not so, they are genres very diverse and far from one another . The thriller - explains - is full of rules, has a social purpose and in fact the culprit is always identified . The noir is different." 213 pages , the book is so long , to thrash out the odyssey of Annibale Dori , the main character , a night taxi driver with a passion for jazz . Between women and locals, mutilated bodies are found, police investigations are developed , murders are perpetrated. Yet , Carboni ensures that 'despite the novel is raw, the violence is only foreseen and never becomes vulgarity. There is evil, but there are also positive characters , not only ' dark'. "Carboni is also satisfied by the landing at Fratelli Frilli Editori of Genoa , one of the few publishing houses in Italy that even in times of crisis is emerging in the country, with a constant search for new Italian authors. "It 's been a quantum leap - confirms Carboni." Carlo Frilli, the publisher, is also satisfied. "We believe that every land has its peculiarities, that the stories should be set in real cities, in times and places that readers know or can discover. It is essential to the credibility of the text. "
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by Roberto Carboni
"The town, in a thriller, is the glass that holds the wine. In a Noir is the wine itself ." So, with a metaphor, Roberto Carboni, gives a soul to his latest book, “Bologna. Destinazione Notte” (Fratelli Frilli Editori) . Until a few weeks ago he was a taxi driver for profession, creative writing teacher for passion, author of noir novels by vocation, Carboni, was born in 1964, lives in Sasso Marconi, he has set his book in Bologna. "It ' a strange city, warm in the day and mysterious in the night, ideal for developing a noir ." It is on this concept, Noir , which Carboni puts the accent. "Many confuse it with the thriller, but it is not so, they are genres very diverse and far from one another . The thriller - explains - is full of rules, has a social purpose and in fact the culprit is always identified . The noir is different." 213 pages , the book is so long , to thrash out the odyssey of Annibale Dori , the main character , a night taxi driver with a passion for jazz . Between women and locals, mutilated bodies are found, police investigations are developed , murders are perpetrated. Yet , Carboni ensures that 'despite the novel is raw, the violence is only foreseen and never becomes vulgarity. There is evil, but there are also positive characters , not only ' dark'. "Carboni is also satisfied by the landing at Fratelli Frilli Editori of Genoa , one of the few publishing houses in Italy that even in times of crisis is emerging in the country, with a constant search for new Italian authors. "It 's been a quantum leap - confirms Carboni." Carlo Frilli, the publisher, is also satisfied. "We believe that every land has its peculiarities, that the stories should be set in real cities, in times and places that readers know or can discover. It is essential to the credibility of the text. "
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Arrigoni e il caso di piazzale Loreto
by Dario Crapanzano
"The town, in a thriller, is the glass that holds the wine. In a Noir is the wine itself ." So, with a metaphor, Roberto Carboni, gives a soul to his latest book,“Bologna. Destinazione Notte” (Fratelli Frilli Editori) . Until a few weeks ago he was a taxi driver for profession, creative writing teacher for passion, author of noir novels by vocation, Carboni, was born in 1964, lives in Sasso Marconi, he has set his book in Bologna. "It ' a strange city, warm in the day and mysterious in the night, ideal for developing a noir ." It is on this concept, Noir , which Carboni puts the accent. "Many confuse it with the thriller, but it is not so, they are genres very diverse and far from one another. The thriller - explains - is full of rules, has a social purpose and in fact the culprit is always identified . The noir is different." 213 pages , the book is so long , to thrash out the odyssey of Annibale Dori, the main character, a night taxi driver with a passion for jazz. Between women and locals, mutilated bodies are found, police investigations are developed , murders are perpetrated. Yet, Carboni ensures that 'despite the novel is raw, the violence is only foreseen and never becomes vulgarity. There is evil, but there are also positive characters, not only ' dark'. "Carboni is also satisfied by the landing at Fratelli Frilli Editori of Genoa , one of the few publishing houses in Italy that even in times of crisis is emerging in the country, with a constant search for new Italian authors. "It a quantum leap - confirms Carboni." Carlo Frilli, the publisher, is also satisfied. "We believe that every land has its peculiarities, that the stories should be set in real cities, in times and places that readers know or can discover. It is essential to the credibility of the text."
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by Dario Crapanzano
"The town, in a thriller, is the glass that holds the wine. In a Noir is the wine itself ." So, with a metaphor, Roberto Carboni, gives a soul to his latest book,“Bologna. Destinazione Notte” (Fratelli Frilli Editori) . Until a few weeks ago he was a taxi driver for profession, creative writing teacher for passion, author of noir novels by vocation, Carboni, was born in 1964, lives in Sasso Marconi, he has set his book in Bologna. "It ' a strange city, warm in the day and mysterious in the night, ideal for developing a noir ." It is on this concept, Noir , which Carboni puts the accent. "Many confuse it with the thriller, but it is not so, they are genres very diverse and far from one another. The thriller - explains - is full of rules, has a social purpose and in fact the culprit is always identified . The noir is different." 213 pages , the book is so long , to thrash out the odyssey of Annibale Dori, the main character, a night taxi driver with a passion for jazz. Between women and locals, mutilated bodies are found, police investigations are developed , murders are perpetrated. Yet, Carboni ensures that 'despite the novel is raw, the violence is only foreseen and never becomes vulgarity. There is evil, but there are also positive characters, not only ' dark'. "Carboni is also satisfied by the landing at Fratelli Frilli Editori of Genoa , one of the few publishing houses in Italy that even in times of crisis is emerging in the country, with a constant search for new Italian authors. "It a quantum leap - confirms Carboni." Carlo Frilli, the publisher, is also satisfied. "We believe that every land has its peculiarities, that the stories should be set in real cities, in times and places that readers know or can discover. It is essential to the credibility of the text."
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Mariani allo specchio
by Maria Masella
July. Chief commissioner Antonio Mariani has been proposed a new job. He would like to consult with his wife, but Francesca is in Corsica, with his daughters, guest of a client. He does not want to speak about it on the phone ... Mariani should go, but a murder holds him in Genoa. The body of an unidentified man was found not far from the Ponte dei Mille. A few days later there is a second murder, a woman gets killed in her home in Val Bisagno. The two crimes are intertwined and push Antonio to ask a lot of questions about himself.
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by Maria Masella
July. Chief commissioner Antonio Mariani has been proposed a new job. He would like to consult with his wife, but Francesca is in Corsica, with his daughters, guest of a client. He does not want to speak about it on the phone ... Mariani should go, but a murder holds him in Genoa. The body of an unidentified man was found not far from the Ponte dei Mille. A few days later there is a second murder, a woman gets killed in her home in Val Bisagno. The two crimes are intertwined and push Antonio to ask a lot of questions about himself.
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Arnomaro
by Simona Togneri
A spring night a car is driving along the side of the Arno with its headlights off. Three people come out of the car. They open the trunk , pull out the body of a woman and they let it fall into the river. The morning after the son of the councilor, candidate number one for the office of President of Tuscany Region, returned at dawn with the muddy shoes . At the same time the parents complain to the police the disappearance of their daughter, Chiara Volpatti . 14 years old and a "place to cry." One of those places where nobody is allowed to enter. One of those where you want to be alone and suffer in silence. When you are 14 years old you can still believe that is sufficient to protect you from external world. Chiara's place to cry is a bench in the Giardino della Fortezza da Basso in Florence. That's where she was immediately looked for but Chiara is not there. She is found dead a few days later, at the base of a pillar of the Victoria Bridge. Along with all the questions that brings. Searching for answers is Commissioner Franco Mezzanotte, who used to bath in the Arno when he was a child and his most trusted man Simòn Renoir, who tries to capture every nuance of color about the river. They both know that he is the real master. He that divides Florence in two and separates the good from the bad, the sins of the sinners.
In a city where even the art and love struggle to find their size, the investigation of Simón and Mezzanotte will lead them to understand that the truth can cost a lot. And that sometimes the questions have the worst answers.
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by Simona Togneri
A spring night a car is driving along the side of the Arno with its headlights off. Three people come out of the car. They open the trunk , pull out the body of a woman and they let it fall into the river. The morning after the son of the councilor, candidate number one for the office of President of Tuscany Region, returned at dawn with the muddy shoes . At the same time the parents complain to the police the disappearance of their daughter, Chiara Volpatti . 14 years old and a "place to cry." One of those places where nobody is allowed to enter. One of those where you want to be alone and suffer in silence. When you are 14 years old you can still believe that is sufficient to protect you from external world. Chiara's place to cry is a bench in the Giardino della Fortezza da Basso in Florence. That's where she was immediately looked for but Chiara is not there. She is found dead a few days later, at the base of a pillar of the Victoria Bridge. Along with all the questions that brings. Searching for answers is Commissioner Franco Mezzanotte, who used to bath in the Arno when he was a child and his most trusted man Simòn Renoir, who tries to capture every nuance of color about the river. They both know that he is the real master. He that divides Florence in two and separates the good from the bad, the sins of the sinners.
In a city where even the art and love struggle to find their size, the investigation of Simón and Mezzanotte will lead them to understand that the truth can cost a lot. And that sometimes the questions have the worst answers.
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A Milano si muore cosi
by Adele Marini
On the streets of Milan there is an unleashed beast, this "Nicu ' U Bucceri", a professional killer that criminal people consider a "Maverick" of the 'Ndrangheta. In fact, "'U Bucceri" has a precise task and to carry it out he does not worry about the number of corpses that he leaves behind.
'U Bucceri is smart and extremely dangerous. Yet, despite he constantly looks back , he is not aware of being followed by a strange woman who arrives straight from his past and wants revenge . Assigned to the investigation with the outlines of the family massacre, the Commissioner Vincenzo Marino of the Police of Milan soon finds himself at the center of an intrigue that looks like organized crime. Surrounded by hostile colleagues, he is forced to move on a ground made insidious by the inexplicable inaction of the investigating magistrate and especially from suspicion, not at all unfounded, that in his division, in the his own team, supporters of criminal organizations have infiltrated, "moles" who, from within the institutions, strive to promote the trade of the most powerful Mafia of all, the 'Ndrangheta.
Gradually, between blunders, false leads and underground struggles between DA's Offices that would ensure the ownership of the investigation, all the tiles of the puzzle fall into place by drawing the terrifying tapestry of a secret Milan where dirty business, mafia masonry murders on commission and unexpected complicity are connected one to the other.
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by Adele Marini
On the streets of Milan there is an unleashed beast, this "Nicu ' U Bucceri", a professional killer that criminal people consider a "Maverick" of the 'Ndrangheta. In fact, "'U Bucceri" has a precise task and to carry it out he does not worry about the number of corpses that he leaves behind.
'U Bucceri is smart and extremely dangerous. Yet, despite he constantly looks back , he is not aware of being followed by a strange woman who arrives straight from his past and wants revenge . Assigned to the investigation with the outlines of the family massacre, the Commissioner Vincenzo Marino of the Police of Milan soon finds himself at the center of an intrigue that looks like organized crime. Surrounded by hostile colleagues, he is forced to move on a ground made insidious by the inexplicable inaction of the investigating magistrate and especially from suspicion, not at all unfounded, that in his division, in the his own team, supporters of criminal organizations have infiltrated, "moles" who, from within the institutions, strive to promote the trade of the most powerful Mafia of all, the 'Ndrangheta.
Gradually, between blunders, false leads and underground struggles between DA's Offices that would ensure the ownership of the investigation, all the tiles of the puzzle fall into place by drawing the terrifying tapestry of a secret Milan where dirty business, mafia masonry murders on commission and unexpected complicity are connected one to the other.
Published by Fratelli Frilli Editore
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Anime alla deriva
by Roberto Negro
In the "ladieras" of Pelourinho, in Salvador de Bahia, there is a raging band of street children led by Marcos. Abandoned by their parents, ignored by the institutions, are slaves of the vapors of glue and of Wagner "the black", undisputed boss of that part of the city, to which they deliver all proceeds of the robberies they commit. Their lives will intersect with those of Ernesto and Rachele, two volunteers of a O.N.G. who will try, risking their own lives, to change the course of things. Thousands of kilometers away, the Commissioner Scichilone, the victim of an identity crisis and depression, is struggling against himself seeking a way out in alcohol. Nevertheless, he will be forced to investigate on Matteo, a drug addict who is guilty of murder. Marcos, Wagner, Ernesto, Rachele, Matteo and Commissioner Scichilone, as adrift souls, will be swallowed by the fate that will connect and will affect their lives.
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by Roberto Negro
In the "ladieras" of Pelourinho, in Salvador de Bahia, there is a raging band of street children led by Marcos. Abandoned by their parents, ignored by the institutions, are slaves of the vapors of glue and of Wagner "the black", undisputed boss of that part of the city, to which they deliver all proceeds of the robberies they commit. Their lives will intersect with those of Ernesto and Rachele, two volunteers of a O.N.G. who will try, risking their own lives, to change the course of things. Thousands of kilometers away, the Commissioner Scichilone, the victim of an identity crisis and depression, is struggling against himself seeking a way out in alcohol. Nevertheless, he will be forced to investigate on Matteo, a drug addict who is guilty of murder. Marcos, Wagner, Ernesto, Rachele, Matteo and Commissioner Scichilone, as adrift souls, will be swallowed by the fate that will connect and will affect their lives.
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Il gioco delle sette pietre
by Alberto Minnella
During the New Year's Eve of 1964, Camurro the police agent in Syracuse receives a disturbing phone call: it is Miss Russo who claims to have seen three men killing Antonio Passanisi, owner of the restaurant “La spada blu”. Arrived on the spot, Commissioner Paolo Portanova is in front of a crime scene entirely new. The corpse of Passanisi has disappeared and with it even the smallest trace of a culprit.
A locked door, in the back, will be the clue of the story and will cause bad troubles. The difficulty of the investigation is worsened by the insistent voice of the rain that will open a gap between the memories of the commissioner, who was forced to come to terms with its past. Unravelling the knot, Portanova, despite himself, with the help of Inspector Gurciullo and Agent Iannelli, will find himself tangled in a murky history of political and personal revenge, soaked with the red blood of carnal love.
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by Alberto Minnella
During the New Year's Eve of 1964, Camurro the police agent in Syracuse receives a disturbing phone call: it is Miss Russo who claims to have seen three men killing Antonio Passanisi, owner of the restaurant “La spada blu”. Arrived on the spot, Commissioner Paolo Portanova is in front of a crime scene entirely new. The corpse of Passanisi has disappeared and with it even the smallest trace of a culprit.
A locked door, in the back, will be the clue of the story and will cause bad troubles. The difficulty of the investigation is worsened by the insistent voice of the rain that will open a gap between the memories of the commissioner, who was forced to come to terms with its past. Unravelling the knot, Portanova, despite himself, with the help of Inspector Gurciullo and Agent Iannelli, will find himself tangled in a murky history of political and personal revenge, soaked with the red blood of carnal love.
Published by Fratelli Frilli Editore
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Toccalossi cerca casa
by Roberto Centazzo
This is curious instruction left to his four nephews by the wealthy businessman Alberto Chilli.
The uncle, after a lifetime of success, decided to retire from business and to die out. He sold all his possessions, closed businesses and dictated his last will to the notary. But what will be this treasure the nephews will have to find? The uncle was sane or someone has influenced its capacity for discernment? Will his accountant Aurelio Cortellesi be involved with it? It could be a simple case of circumvention of a disable person but the former Prosecutor of the Republic of Savona, Lorenzo Toccalossi, recently moved to Genoa to direct the Anti-mafia District Attorney Office, alerted by his neighbor, the notary who drafted the will, decides to give him a hand. He is no longer in charge of the investigation but he wants to see clearly and decides to unofficial take care of the matter.
In the meantime, he is looking for a house, aided by an increasingly daring Erminia, his former assistant, now completely in love with him. An investigation conducted in the shadows, from which will emerge an affair hidden for half a century.
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by Roberto Centazzo
This is curious instruction left to his four nephews by the wealthy businessman Alberto Chilli.
The uncle, after a lifetime of success, decided to retire from business and to die out. He sold all his possessions, closed businesses and dictated his last will to the notary. But what will be this treasure the nephews will have to find? The uncle was sane or someone has influenced its capacity for discernment? Will his accountant Aurelio Cortellesi be involved with it? It could be a simple case of circumvention of a disable person but the former Prosecutor of the Republic of Savona, Lorenzo Toccalossi, recently moved to Genoa to direct the Anti-mafia District Attorney Office, alerted by his neighbor, the notary who drafted the will, decides to give him a hand. He is no longer in charge of the investigation but he wants to see clearly and decides to unofficial take care of the matter.
In the meantime, he is looking for a house, aided by an increasingly daring Erminia, his former assistant, now completely in love with him. An investigation conducted in the shadows, from which will emerge an affair hidden for half a century.
Published by Fratelli Frilli Editore
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Il delitto dell’Immacolata
by Domenico Cacopardo
Set between Messina and Letojanni, here the Sicilian environment is described without restraints, showing its conformisms and its taboos, its common and its individual tics: a novel fit to be read in a single breath, a bated breath.
DC was born in 1936 in Sicily and has lived in several Italian cities. He contributes to newspapers and periodicals. Deputy public prosecutor Italo Agrò is the main character of his novels: L'endiadi del dottor Agrò (2001), Cadenze d'inganno (2002), La mano del Pomarancio (2003), L'accademia di vicolo Baciadonne (2006), Agrò e la deliziosa vedova Carpino (2010), Agrò e la scomparsa di Omber (2011). He’s the author also of: Il caso Chillé (1999), Giacarandà (2002), Virginia (2005) and Carne viva (2008). He published some books of poems: Polifemo e altro (1982), Il guerriero egizio (1984) and L'implicito sublime (1987). His web site is: www.cacopardo.it
Published by Marsilio Editori
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by Domenico Cacopardo
Set between Messina and Letojanni, here the Sicilian environment is described without restraints, showing its conformisms and its taboos, its common and its individual tics: a novel fit to be read in a single breath, a bated breath.
DC was born in 1936 in Sicily and has lived in several Italian cities. He contributes to newspapers and periodicals. Deputy public prosecutor Italo Agrò is the main character of his novels: L'endiadi del dottor Agrò (2001), Cadenze d'inganno (2002), La mano del Pomarancio (2003), L'accademia di vicolo Baciadonne (2006), Agrò e la deliziosa vedova Carpino (2010), Agrò e la scomparsa di Omber (2011). He’s the author also of: Il caso Chillé (1999), Giacarandà (2002), Virginia (2005) and Carne viva (2008). He published some books of poems: Polifemo e altro (1982), Il guerriero egizio (1984) and L'implicito sublime (1987). His web site is: www.cacopardo.it
Published by Marsilio Editori
www.marsilioeditori.it
Tu sei il male
by Roberto Costantini
The first chapter of the Trilogia del male, the thriller saga that impassioned reviewers and readers alike.
Tu sei il male is a narrative device of a diabolical precision that swallows the reader into a vortex of revelations and coups de théâtre to which is impossible to escape, but it’s also a novel capable of showing with a clear sight the conflicts that pemeate our society, while suggesting an uncommon reflection on how fleeting is the border separating good from evil, innocents from culprits.
RC was born in Tripoli, Lybia, in 1952. An engineer and a business consultant, he’s a manager of LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome where he teaches at the Business administration master. Tu sei il male, the first chapter of the Michele Balistreri’s trilogy is his first novel. It’s a thriller that became an international editorial case before even being published. The rights for film adaptation have been optioned, and it’s being translated in all major European languages.
Published by Marsilio Editori
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by Roberto Costantini
The first chapter of the Trilogia del male, the thriller saga that impassioned reviewers and readers alike.
Tu sei il male is a narrative device of a diabolical precision that swallows the reader into a vortex of revelations and coups de théâtre to which is impossible to escape, but it’s also a novel capable of showing with a clear sight the conflicts that pemeate our society, while suggesting an uncommon reflection on how fleeting is the border separating good from evil, innocents from culprits.
RC was born in Tripoli, Lybia, in 1952. An engineer and a business consultant, he’s a manager of LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome where he teaches at the Business administration master. Tu sei il male, the first chapter of the Michele Balistreri’s trilogy is his first novel. It’s a thriller that became an international editorial case before even being published. The rights for film adaptation have been optioned, and it’s being translated in all major European languages.
Published by Marsilio Editori
www.marsilioeditori.it
Il cerchio dell’odio
by Massimo Galluppi
A puzzle worthy of the masters of the genre, the first novel by MG is a thrilling and sophisticated noir set in the academic world during a period spanning from the students conflicts in the Seventies to this day, in Italy, France, and China.
The academic quarrels among University barons, the ultra-leftist students of the Seventies, the well-to-do Naples of today are the set for an impenetrable crime story. Only his stubborn dedication will enable a skillful police officer to solve the Red Circle enigma.
MG lives in Naples. He’s been a professor of History of international relations and of Political and diplomatic history in Eastern Asia at the Faculty of political sciences of the University “l’Orientale” in Naples. This is his first novel.
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by Massimo Galluppi
A puzzle worthy of the masters of the genre, the first novel by MG is a thrilling and sophisticated noir set in the academic world during a period spanning from the students conflicts in the Seventies to this day, in Italy, France, and China.
The academic quarrels among University barons, the ultra-leftist students of the Seventies, the well-to-do Naples of today are the set for an impenetrable crime story. Only his stubborn dedication will enable a skillful police officer to solve the Red Circle enigma.
MG lives in Naples. He’s been a professor of History of international relations and of Political and diplomatic history in Eastern Asia at the Faculty of political sciences of the University “l’Orientale” in Naples. This is his first novel.
Published by Marsilio Editori
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Gioco pericoloso
by Gabriella Genisi
An entirely Italian thriller for Lolita Lobosco, the lady Police Commissioner from Bari that investigates with irony and sensuality on red-hot topical cases.
During the crucial football match for the admission of Bari soccer team to the major league, one of the players dies at the San Nicola stadium. A natural death apparently, with far too many misteries though. A few months later in fact, while investigating on what seemed to everybody an incident, Commissioner Lolita runs accross an international intrigue destined to demolish the foundations of Italian soccer. A dirty mix of sport and crime that risks to upset even Lolì’s life.
GG was born in 1955 and lives next to the seaside, a few miles away from Bari. A lover of art, cuisine and literature, she has written several books: Come quando fuori piove, Fino a quando le stelle, Il pesce rosso non abita più qui. She published some stories in anthologies. With Sonzogno she published: La circonferenza delle arance (2010), Giallo ciliegia (2011) and Uva noir (2012), the inquests of Commissioner Lolì that inspired the Italian public tv series.
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by Gabriella Genisi
An entirely Italian thriller for Lolita Lobosco, the lady Police Commissioner from Bari that investigates with irony and sensuality on red-hot topical cases.
During the crucial football match for the admission of Bari soccer team to the major league, one of the players dies at the San Nicola stadium. A natural death apparently, with far too many misteries though. A few months later in fact, while investigating on what seemed to everybody an incident, Commissioner Lolita runs accross an international intrigue destined to demolish the foundations of Italian soccer. A dirty mix of sport and crime that risks to upset even Lolì’s life.
GG was born in 1955 and lives next to the seaside, a few miles away from Bari. A lover of art, cuisine and literature, she has written several books: Come quando fuori piove, Fino a quando le stelle, Il pesce rosso non abita più qui. She published some stories in anthologies. With Sonzogno she published: La circonferenza delle arance (2010), Giallo ciliegia (2011) and Uva noir (2012), the inquests of Commissioner Lolì that inspired the Italian public tv series.
Published by Marsilio Editori
www.marsilioeditori.it
Ovunque tu vada
by Katia Tenti
Public prosecutor Jakob Dekas, shut off from the wet heat biting Bolzano in mid-August, receives an unexpected visit from Milena Roman, once again going to him for help: her former boyfriend is a stalker. He torments her pestering her with phone calls, waits for her outside her house, appears and disappears on her bus day after day. To Dekas it’s only a nuisance: in fact the man does not commit any offence. A few months later, in Winter, the corpse of Otto Pixner is found in the park of Villa Clemens, residence to the renowned lawyer Lukas Plattner, a close friend with whom Pixner used to share a passion for gambling. First a fainting, then the freezing overnight. Apparently all looks fine if for a doubt aroused by the old man’s family doctor that requires a postmortem. Pixner was absolutely healthy. While Dekas is engaged in solving the Pixner case, a mythomaniac breaks into his professional life: a young woman is accusing a priest of having raped her when she was still a little girl. For many a long year the violence has remained hidden in her brain, to come up gradually thanks to a psychotherapist’s help. What do these three apparently unconnected cases have in common with each other? What’s hiding behind the enchanted beauty of the Dolomites reddening sunset, within the folds of a somehow politically correct but moralistic society?
KT was born in Bolzano where she lives and works as a manager in public services. She has studied and did research work on social deviance phenomena. For many years she’s worked in organizing social services. This is her first novel.
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by Katia Tenti
Public prosecutor Jakob Dekas, shut off from the wet heat biting Bolzano in mid-August, receives an unexpected visit from Milena Roman, once again going to him for help: her former boyfriend is a stalker. He torments her pestering her with phone calls, waits for her outside her house, appears and disappears on her bus day after day. To Dekas it’s only a nuisance: in fact the man does not commit any offence. A few months later, in Winter, the corpse of Otto Pixner is found in the park of Villa Clemens, residence to the renowned lawyer Lukas Plattner, a close friend with whom Pixner used to share a passion for gambling. First a fainting, then the freezing overnight. Apparently all looks fine if for a doubt aroused by the old man’s family doctor that requires a postmortem. Pixner was absolutely healthy. While Dekas is engaged in solving the Pixner case, a mythomaniac breaks into his professional life: a young woman is accusing a priest of having raped her when she was still a little girl. For many a long year the violence has remained hidden in her brain, to come up gradually thanks to a psychotherapist’s help. What do these three apparently unconnected cases have in common with each other? What’s hiding behind the enchanted beauty of the Dolomites reddening sunset, within the folds of a somehow politically correct but moralistic society?
KT was born in Bolzano where she lives and works as a manager in public services. She has studied and did research work on social deviance phenomena. For many years she’s worked in organizing social services. This is her first novel.
Published by Marsilio Editori
www.marsilioeditori.it
Alle radici del male
by Roberto Costantini
After the success of Tu sei il male, the Commissioner Balistreri’s saga continues with the second chapter of the Trilogia del Male by Roberto Costantini.
Tripoli in the Sixties. Mike Balistreri’s exhuberant and rebellious teenage years are turbulent like the ghibli wind blowing from the desert. In postcolonial Lybia, prey to the Western World interests because of its oil fields, Mike’s early years are marked by the death of his mother Italia and by that of little Nadia; by two unrequited love stories, one of which immaculate and pure, the other full of anger and lust; by the involvement in a conspiracy against Khaddafi and by a blood tie that will leave a deep scar in the flesh and the soul of both him and his three best friends’ lives.
Rome, September 1982. Back from the catastrophic failure of the Sordi case, the young Commissioner Balistreri stupefies himself nightly with alcohol, poker and sex. In the daytime he indolently investigates on the death of Anita, a Southamerican female student murdered soon after her arrival in town. As an act of gratitude towards the person who saved his career, he’s also forced to look after Claudia Teodori, a roughneck starlette only just starting her bright ascent in the early days of private TV.
RC was born in Tripoli, Lybia, in 1952. An engineer and business consultant, he’s a manager of LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome where he teaches at the Business administration master. Tu sei il male, the first chapter of the Michele Balistreri’s trilogy is his first novel. It’s a thriller that became an international editorial case before even being published. The rights for film adaptation have been optioned, and it’s being translated in all major European languages.
Published by Marsilio Editori
www.marsilioeditori.it
by Roberto Costantini
After the success of Tu sei il male, the Commissioner Balistreri’s saga continues with the second chapter of the Trilogia del Male by Roberto Costantini.
Tripoli in the Sixties. Mike Balistreri’s exhuberant and rebellious teenage years are turbulent like the ghibli wind blowing from the desert. In postcolonial Lybia, prey to the Western World interests because of its oil fields, Mike’s early years are marked by the death of his mother Italia and by that of little Nadia; by two unrequited love stories, one of which immaculate and pure, the other full of anger and lust; by the involvement in a conspiracy against Khaddafi and by a blood tie that will leave a deep scar in the flesh and the soul of both him and his three best friends’ lives.
Rome, September 1982. Back from the catastrophic failure of the Sordi case, the young Commissioner Balistreri stupefies himself nightly with alcohol, poker and sex. In the daytime he indolently investigates on the death of Anita, a Southamerican female student murdered soon after her arrival in town. As an act of gratitude towards the person who saved his career, he’s also forced to look after Claudia Teodori, a roughneck starlette only just starting her bright ascent in the early days of private TV.
RC was born in Tripoli, Lybia, in 1952. An engineer and business consultant, he’s a manager of LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome where he teaches at the Business administration master. Tu sei il male, the first chapter of the Michele Balistreri’s trilogy is his first novel. It’s a thriller that became an international editorial case before even being published. The rights for film adaptation have been optioned, and it’s being translated in all major European languages.
Published by Marsilio Editori
www.marsilioeditori.it
Corpo morto
Dead Body
by Marco Polillo
BUR 2014 - ISBN 978-8817067867
At the beginning of autumn, while the deputy commissioner Enea Zottìa is enjoying a peaceful holiday in the enchanting village of Positano on the Amalfi Coast, the dead body of a murdered man is discovered into a boat. Other crimes will follow. While the local police aren't able to arrive to any point, Zottìa starts his own investigation. He will find out a thick net of revenges, suspects and enigmas.
Dead Body
by Marco Polillo
BUR 2014 - ISBN 978-8817067867
At the beginning of autumn, while the deputy commissioner Enea Zottìa is enjoying a peaceful holiday in the enchanting village of Positano on the Amalfi Coast, the dead body of a murdered man is discovered into a boat. Other crimes will follow. While the local police aren't able to arrive to any point, Zottìa starts his own investigation. He will find out a thick net of revenges, suspects and enigmas.
Il pontile sul lago
The Pier on the Lake
by Marco Polillo
Rizzoli 2011 - ISBN 978-8817050920
BUR 2012 - ISBN 978-88170060134
In a small village on Lake Orta, four friends meet up every day at the local bar to chronicle the local goings-on. One evening, however, one of them does not show up. When Gennaro Vattuone’s, a retired Latin professor, is found dead on the pier of his villa, the deputy commissioner Enea Zottìa arrives in the small town from Milan to help with the investigation, and the secrets come spilling out.
The Pier on the Lake
by Marco Polillo
Rizzoli 2011 - ISBN 978-8817050920
BUR 2012 - ISBN 978-88170060134
In a small village on Lake Orta, four friends meet up every day at the local bar to chronicle the local goings-on. One evening, however, one of them does not show up. When Gennaro Vattuone’s, a retired Latin professor, is found dead on the pier of his villa, the deputy commissioner Enea Zottìa arrives in the small town from Milan to help with the investigation, and the secrets come spilling out.
Villa Tre Pini
Villa Three Pines
by Marco Polillo
Rizzoli 2012 - ISBN 9788817058902
BUR 2013 - ISBN 978-8817067881
Enea Zottìa is even more involved with his new love Serena and he accepts to join her in a splendid villa on the enchanting hills around Lake Maggiore, where she is spending Christmas holidays with some friends. Everything seems to flow quiet and placid, until one night a guest is found dead in his room. With his peculiar method, following his feelings, Zottìa will find out that some mysteries are deep-rooted and started a long way off.
Villa Three Pines
by Marco Polillo
Rizzoli 2012 - ISBN 9788817058902
BUR 2013 - ISBN 978-8817067881
Enea Zottìa is even more involved with his new love Serena and he accepts to join her in a splendid villa on the enchanting hills around Lake Maggiore, where she is spending Christmas holidays with some friends. Everything seems to flow quiet and placid, until one night a guest is found dead in his room. With his peculiar method, following his feelings, Zottìa will find out that some mysteries are deep-rooted and started a long way off.
Il convento sull’isola
The Convent on the Island
by Marco Polillo
Rizzoli 2014, ISBN 978-8817074780
Enea Zottìa is sailing toward Isola San Giulio. A discreet request has come from the sisters of the convent perched on the island, disturbed by a number of thefts that have occurred within their walls and in the houses of the area. Moreover there is a painting that appears and disappears inexplicably. Zottìa begins to investigate patiently, in a village where time seems to have stopped, but which, under the veneer of envy, cunning and whispered gossip, conceals an unsuspected reality.
The Convent on the Island
by Marco Polillo
Rizzoli 2014, ISBN 978-8817074780
Enea Zottìa is sailing toward Isola San Giulio. A discreet request has come from the sisters of the convent perched on the island, disturbed by a number of thefts that have occurred within their walls and in the houses of the area. Moreover there is a painting that appears and disappears inexplicably. Zottìa begins to investigate patiently, in a village where time seems to have stopped, but which, under the veneer of envy, cunning and whispered gossip, conceals an unsuspected reality.