Xavier González Rovira Livres

Roma está en manos de un asesino capaz de darle forma a la oscuridad. Sus siniestras obsesiones se materializan en el rito del asesinato; sus terribles visiones se convierten en realidad a través de sus víctimas. Porque el monstruo no se limita a matar: modela, da forma, transfigura a cada una de ellas en una criatura mitológica. Y los indicios que deja carecen de sentido aparente para quien no esté en condiciones de interpretarlos. Se necesita a un experto capaz de analizar la escena del crimen y trazar un perfil del asesino. Mientras aparecen nuevas obras del bautizado por la prensa como «El Escultor» en la Casita de las Lechuzas de Villa Torlonia, el parque zoológico y la laberíntica red romana de alcantarillado, el comisario Mancini es reclamado en su puesto. Tiene por delante el desafío más angustioso y letal de su carrera... o incluso de su vida.

An atmospheric commercial thriller for readers of Stephen King and Jo l DickerJeremiah Salinger blames himself. The crash was his fault. He was the only survivor. Now only his daughter Clara can put a smile on his face. The depression and the nightmares are closing in.But when he takes Clara to the Bletterbach - a canyon in the Dolomites rich in fossil remains - he overhears by chance a conversation that gives his life renewed focus. In 1985 three students were murdered there, their bodies savaged, limbs severed and strewn by a killer who was never found.Salinger, a New Yorker, is far from home, and these Italian mountains, where his wife was born, harbour a close-knit, tight-lipped community whose mistrust of outsiders can turn ugly. All the same, solving this mystery might be the only thing that can keep him sane.Translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis