[Le coin du polar] Magician’s son investigates his father’s murder

When you come from a Tuscan family, as we do, it is difficult to escape the mystery of Monster of Florenceresponsible for eight double murders between 1968 and 1985. Serial killer who is said to still be at large, and to have inspired Thomas Harris to create his cannibalistic sociopath. If some contradict those who think so, we do not mind seeing some affinities between the Monster and Hannibal Lecter. After the American novelist, Douglas Preston, and the Tuscan legal chronicler, Mario Spezi, it is the turn of Sandrone Dazieri to take an interest in one of the most resonant news stories of the twentieth century, and in its translator, Delphine Gachet , to help make it known to the French public.

A bouquet of roses

« I was fifteen years old the day I had to face the Monster. » Thus speaks, from the beginning, The magician’s sonnamely the son of a showman, found dead in his burned caravan, and known for his sleight of hand, and the cards in which he read the past, the present, and the future. Gift of clairvoyance, which unfortunately did not allow him to predict his death. While the firefighters and the police trample the ashes of the caravan, a clue jumps out at the magician’s son: a bouquet of roses, left hanging from the ceiling, upside down. Signature of a mafia, a sect, or the Monster? It is not up to us to answer, but to the son who is leading the investigation. In any case, in life, or in novels, the pieces of a puzzle complete each other, little by little, and always end up fitting together. A nightmarish fiction to be placed among the best Italian thrillers.