Bari, Southern Italy, December 2009. A triple homicide in the city centre two days before Christmas and the discovery, a week before, of a middle-aged woman's corpse in one of the city's parks catapult inspector Andrea Pantaleo into a double investigation with a totally unpredictable outcome. But it is Gianrico Salvemini, the Provincial Deputy Chief of Police, to call Pantaleo to the scene of the triple homicide. Something behind the brutal crime has terrified the Deputy Chief. Something from his past. The dead of the present and those of a nightmare started many years before are somehow connected. A nightmare that can be interrupted only by Andrea Pantaleo, an experienced inspector who grew up devouring Sherlock Holmes and Ellery Queen detective novels...
THE AUTHOR
Claudio Calabrese is a well-known author on Amazon, in Italy. He is an engineer, author of detective novels, science fiction, fantasy and romantic comedies. In Italy he was successful mainly thanks to the inspector Pantaleo's series, which allowed him to abandon his profession and devote himself to writing full-time novels. He lives in Bari, the splendid capital of Puglia, in the south of Italy, with his wife Monica and their black cat Aramìs.
His pseudonym is Arthur Doyle, in homage to the greatest crime writer of all time.

Kirkus Reviews

"In this debut thriller, an inspector's dual murder cases may be connected to an unidentified serial killer's spree from 20 years ago. Just days away from Christmas in 2009, Inspector Andrea Pantaleo of the murder squad in Bari, Italy, has two new cases on his desk. One is the mutilated body of an unknown woman, with indications of torture and rape; the other is a gangland-style shooting of three men. In the novel's concurrent plot, events beginning in 1960 ultimately lead to the 1988 investigation of the murder of Marta Villoresi in Genova... Salvemini pinpoints and arrests a suspect, but a second homicide could mean he has the wrong man. More murders ensue and, though they eventually stop, remain unsolved by 2009. Pantaleo, however, has evidence that links his two cases with Marta's murder by the '88 serial killer, who may once again be active. Originally published in Italian, Calabrese's series opener introduces a curious inspector who appears in later volumes. Short-tempered Pantaleo is unlikable, physically assaulting a parking attendant with little provocation. But there's a softer side, as he fawns over his grandmother, who raised him until he was 10 years old (when her health deteriorated). The engrossing 1988 plot, at over a third of the book's length, is fully fleshed out, meticulously following Salvemini's investigation. Descriptions of murders from both eras--a victim's perspective as well as forensics examinations--are graphic and harrowing... A mystery that aptly covers two time periods, fronted by an offbeat protagonist."

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• Publication Date: April 7, 2019
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