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by Alessandro Robecchi
A mysterious murder in present-day Milan intertwines with a cold case from the 1940s in this thrilling novel about film, freedom, censorship, and the persistent threat of fascism.
An acclaimed director, Manlio Parrini, decides to return behind the camera. Having abandoned cinema at the height of his success because he found the industry to be "a place without truth," he now, in his 70s, has a special story in mind: a film about Augusto De Angelis, a pioneer of Italian crime fiction in the 1930s. The violent death of De Angelis remains, for Parrini, an unsolved case marked by the stench of injustice and blind fascist censorship, a story that needs to be told now more than ever.
Yet just as Parrini finds a producer for his project and begins writing the screenplay with his friend and accomplice Sara De Viesti, another mystery bursts into his life: the murder of the elderly widow Bastoni, who owns the villa next door to his.
"[An] exquisite whodunit…This is a cut above most murder mysteries." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"This singular and layered tale…compellingly depicts artistic collaboration along with the puzzle of a police procedural…Fans of Georges Simenon's Maigret or Anthony Horowitz's Hawthorne and Horowitz will find much to enjoy in this literary house of mirrors." —Library Journal (starred review)
"A riveting mystery packed with political and historical intrigue. Italy's past and present are woven together in thrilling detail." —Jo Piazza, author of The Sicilian Inheritance and Everyone Is Lying to You
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Alessandro Robecchi is a former columnist for Il Manifesto and currently writes for Il Fatto Quotidiano and Tuttolibri of La Stampa. Robecchi is one of Italy's most beloved crime authors, with his ten novels in the Carlo Monterossi series having sold more than 600,000 copies.
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