One of the main reasons why writers love detective is their narrative function: they are guides, attentive observers of the world and tools through which the reader discovers the truth. In Forget the dead, Panza Volta It builds an intertwining in which investigation also becomes an investigation into the human soul, a journey into the secrets and trauma of the past. The detective here is not only those who discovered the culprit, but those who recompose the pieces of memory and collective consciousness.
Leave the dead alone – Claudio Panzavolta
Faenza, 1980. Ciparisso Briganti, partisan as a very young age, former policeman, today is a private investigator who divides himself between stalking and test collections, the passion for the game of bowls, jazz and a ramshackle family.
One woman in September, a woman delivers a ticket to him, and with a punch of words the past returns to knock on his door: the baker Federico Ronconi, a confessing guilty condemned to life imprisonment for the brutal murder of four children, died, but before leaving he kept us to let him know that in reality with those killings he had nothing to do with it.
The unexpected declaration of innocence pushes him to take back that uncomfortable and boiling investigation that four years earlier cost him his career, but in hunting the real killer, digging in the cloudy of a city where silent faults and covering are mixed with fascist fascist, he will have to look at his back in order not to endanger the people he loves.
In a province close to the throat from the tail of the years of lead, while the eighties pour out false promises of light -heartedness, investigating the death of the children – and on the mysterious disappearance of the sister of the last – Briganti will find themselves dealing with the original sins of the First Republic, between missed erazioni and stirmers spiritual sessions aimed at evoking the ghost of Mussolini, to discover that the evil is often lurked in that. It should be the den of his opponent.
Info. Leave the dead alone – Claudio Panzavolta – Ponte alle Grazie
Damascus Station – David McCloskey
The CIA agent Sam Joseph is sent to Paris to recruit Syrian official Mariam Haddad. The two end up in a forbidden relationship, which exposes them to an enormous danger when they enter Damascus to find the man responsible for the disappearance of an American spy.
The hunt for the murderer soon leads to a series of high -profile murders and discovering a dark secret in the heart of the Syrian regime. For Moriam and Joseph to escape the omnive viewfinder of the Spies of Assad and his brother Rustum, the head of the Republican guard, is a matter of life or death …
Set in a pulsating scenario of fear and rebellion, Damascus Station is a breathtaking thriller that skilfully doses knowledge of places and operations on the field, cure for detail, compassion and romance, in one of the most difficult channel missions ever.
Info. Damascus Station – David McCloskey – Salani
The carousel of the spies – Rosa TERUZZI
In the dense fog of the night of All Saints, a mysterious figure moves in the darkness with one goal: to definitively eliminate Cairati, the Fioraia-Detective of the Giambellino. After poisoning her with a bouquet of rose at the aconitine, the attacker gave himself a nickname, the shadow, and is ready to hit again.
From the refuge of the railway toll booth in which he lives, Libera will have to face him to sprouted weapons, forced to act in secret by Mimma Arrigoni, a prosecutor who opposes his investigations and undermines the relationship with the fascinating commissioner Gabriele.
But when the danger becomes more insidious, free knows he can count on the accomplices ever – the eccentric Mother Iole, the journalist Irene and the gruff leader Cagnaccio -, a close -knit team to which two unpredictable allies come together: Diego Capistrano, former robber and lover of Iole, and Angelo Riva called the fast piece, a photographer capable of making himself invisible and disappearing.
Between sidetracks, attempted murders and hidden secrets, shadow hunting becomes a lethal game, where every move could be the last one. In a Milan bruised and beaten by the rain, in which everyone seems to be spied on each other, Libera will have to face its enemy without certainties – not even those of the heart.
Info. The carousel of the spies – Rosa TERUZZI – Sonzogno
The number one, the investigations of Commissioner Berté – Emilio Martini
The latest news of Commissioner Gigi Berté is the WhatsApp message of the 21.30 sent to Marzia: “I’m returning, hunger!”. But at 11pm that rainy November evening has not yet returned home from the refresher course and his cell phone is deactivated.
The first research of Lungariva’s team, flanked by the prosecutor Graffiani, taken after the distressed phone call from Marzia, lead to nothing. A disturbing hypothesis becomes more and more realistic: Berté has been seized. Meanwhile, a young lawyer is found lifeless and with the cranio fractured in a carruggio in Genoa: is there a link between the two facts? And if the criminal hand is the same … who belongs to?
Maybe someone who returns from an uncomfortable past that Berté would like to forget? Or instead the squalid story that emerges from the research has roots in a cruel topical?
A choral investigation and outside the box, conducted between Genoa, Lungariva and Imperia starring also the inspector Francesca Belli who will use not only of technology but also of the heart to get to the truth.
The only certainty for the Milanese commissioner of Calabrian origin is that he can count on the friendship of the colleagues of Lungariva and the unconditional love of Marzia …
Info. The number one, the investigations of Commissioner Berté – Emilio Martini – Corbaccio
