**Ilaria Tuti's thriller debut explores a remote community in Northern Italy—a place of secrets, eerie folktales, and primal instincts.** In a quiet village surrounded by ancient woods and the imposing Italian Alps, a man is found naked with his eyes gouged out. It is the first in a string of
Flowers over the inferno
✍ Scribed by Oklap, Ekin;Tuti, Ilaria
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 165 KB
- Series
- Teresa Battaglia novel 1
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Alps,Alps., Criminal profilers
- ISBN
- 1641290692
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✦ Synopsis
Ilaria Tuti's thriller debut explores a remote community in Northern Italy --a place of secrets, eerie folktales, and primal instincts.
In a quiet village surrounded by ancient woods and the imposing Italian Alps, a man is found naked with his eyes gouged out. It is the first in a string of gruesome murders.
Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a detective with a background in criminal profiling, is called to investigate. Battaglia is in her mid-sixties, her rank and expertise hard-won from decades of battling for respect in the male-dominated Italian police force. While she's not sure she trusts the young city inspector assigned to assist her, she sees right away that this is no ordinary case: buried deep in these mountains is a dark history that may endanger a group of eight-year-old children toward whom the killer seems to gravitate.
As Teresa inches closer to the truth, she must also confront the possibility that her
body and mind, worn...
✦ Subjects
Alps
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