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

✦ 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