Michele Giuttari

A rattling good read. At first I wondered if the translation was smoothly and effectively done, but I soon forgot this, either because it got better, or because it ceased to matter. Our detective, Chief Superintendent Ferrara, is a cool customer, respected and successful. When it seems he has a serial killer on his hands, one moreover who has identified seven victims of whom he will be the seventh, he becomes less cool. Written by a real life police chief, this complex plot involves and convinces, and in the end, I simply had to get it finished before normal life could resume.… (more)