About the book: 2018 / An ever wider panorama of the Italian detective story, including the political one, is revealed to lovers of detective reading. These books are very diverse, far from being of equal value, but taken together they represent an interesting and unique socio-literary phenomenon, highlighting those social problems, those aspects of Italian life that “serious” literature has not reached. And one cannot, wrinkling one’s nose, discount this popular, truly mass genre - a typically Italian type of literary work, in which elements of a social, psychological and detective novel are closely intertwined. This is the novel offered to fans of this genre..