This is the story of Marco, a journalist who has lost his way after his wife was raped and then her suicide. Desperation and the desire for change take him to environments far from his world. He finds himself, almost unwittingly, frequenting the slums of his city and a low-class dive, The Bad Bear Tavern, where he meets a neglected humanity living on the edge of legality, made up largely of non-EU citizens. Among them, one person stands out: Igor, a cultured Hungarian who has experienced t...

Summer 2022.Zoe, twenty-three years old, who is suffering from depression due to her mother's illness, decides to take a healing vacation in Canada with her boyfriend Matteo, thirty years old.During the welcome party at her great-uncle’s home in Ottawa where they are guests, Matteo finds a dead body.The local police consider Zoe and Matteo as suspects.Matteo asks his brothers in Italy for help to prove his innocence.One of the brothers, Alex, a Carabinier...

Summer 2022.Zoe, twenty-three years old, who is suffering from depression due to her mother's illness, decides to take a healing vacation in Canada with her boyfriend Matteo, thirty years old.During the welcome party at her great-uncle’s home in Ottawa where they are guests, Matteo finds a dead body. The local police consider Zoe and Matteo as suspects.Matteo asks his brothers in Italy for help to prove his innocence. One of the brothers, Alex, a Carabiniere, with the help of his colleague...

A cursed typewriter. A man sitting on the railing of a balcony. The protagonist of his novel. Two lives that weave together similar experiences, two paths in precarious equilibrium.Franco is sitting comfortably on the railing of the balcony of his house, on the third floor of the building where he lives. As if it were nothing unusual, he is reading the pages of the novel he has just finished writing and then lets them fall below, among the crowd of onlookers who have gathered to wa...

The young Bruno Mulas is found dead in the street, a few meters from the apartment he shared with his friend Gavino. Several posts on Facebook seem to point to a suicide, but Gavino does not think so. Bruno's parents are bewildered, his friends seem to be entrenched in silence. The case becomes an obsession for the protagonist, the crime journalist Nereo Carta, who remains entangled in a network of relationships in which no one is what they seem. The story, structured as a mystery-noir, de...

Dedicated with affection to all those (and there are many) who have given their love to someone and had to contend with their illness, even though they knew that they have no chance of winning; and to those who had to coexist with a love like this.”Over twenty years ago a girl I loved like myself asked me to leave her forever because of her poor health, and not to contact her again. I agreed, with death in my heart, and intending it only as an act of love on her part towards me, to...

The young Bruno Mulas is found dead in the street, a few meters from the apartment he shared with his friend Gavino. Several posts on Facebook seem to point to a suicide, but Gavino does not think so. Bruno's parents are bewildered, his friends seem to be entrenched in silence. The case becomes an obsession for the protagonist, the crime journalist Nereo Carta, who remains entangled in a network of relationships in which no one is what they seem. The story, structured as a mystery-noir, de...

Dedicated with affection to all those (and there are many) who have given their love to someone and had to contend with their illness, even though they knew that they have no chance of winning; and to those who had to coexist with a love like this.”Over twenty years ago a girl I loved like myself asked me to leave her forever because of her poor health, and not to contact her again. I agreed, with death in my heart, and intending it only as an act of love on her part towards me, to...

New York, late evening of March 30, 1972: During a political banquet organized by the challenging candidate Senator Donald Montgomery in the run-up to the US presidential elections, a wealthy young woman, his well-known elector married to the very rich Peter White and a systematically adulterous woman who in the 50s had been the lover of the Italian Vittorio D'Aiazzo, deputy police commissioner of Turin, and in 1969 his friend Ranieri Velli’s lover, is killed with a firearm. After killing ...

Can the soul of a woman, sold to the highest bidder by her family, find redemption? The real story of Giulia Farnese, a woman far beyond time.Giulia Farnese, a woman who traverses time to find, in this novel, her redemption.Her real story is that of a woman who goes far beyond the figure of Sponsa Christi as she was known throughout the world.The writer traces the profile of a strong woman who, once free from the trammels of a family that raised her to be obedient, r...

September 26, 1943. Naples is on the verge of rebelling against the occupying Germans. Rosa, a prostitute and black marketer, a confidant of the Fascist political police, is killed violently. Her alleged murderer, Gennaro, is detained and questioned in vain by a still inexperienced deputy commissioner, Vittorio. Shortly after, the insurrection that will go down in history as The Four Days of Naples erupts. The deputy commissioner and Rosa’s alleged murderer, strangely set free by the commi...

A night of passion wreaks havoc in the life and career of Loreley, a young New York lawyer grappling with a delicate court case and what seems to be an obvious outcome. To discover the truth, the woman decides to infiltrate an ambiguous environment, where she will discover another side of herself.Several characters revolve around the protagonist: an old love, family, friends, colleagues, but above all Sonny, a pianist and composer still bound to his past. Some of them remain true to...