In this latest book by the king of the Italian thriller, while the country is in the grip of an exceptional heatwave, in the dead of night thirteen-year-old Samantha re-emerges from the black hole of a lengthy abduction. Injured and traumatized, the teenager is hospitalized and attended to by Doctor Green, a rather unorthodox profiler. In fact, Green is not out to find monsters in the outside world, but in their victims’ minds. Indeed, only Sam’s memories hold the clues that will lead to the capture of her prisonkeeper: the Labyrinth Man.

Donato Carrisi (Martina Franca, 1973) lives in Rome. After graduating with a law degree, he started writing scripts for film and television in 1999, including the script for Nassiryia - Per non dimenticare (Canale 5) and the miniseries Era mio fratello (Raiuno). He is also a contributor to the Corriere della Sera. In 2009 Longanesi published Carrisi’s first novel, The Whisperer, which won the Bancarella Prize. This would be followed by the 2011 Il tribunale delle anime, shortlisted for the Giorgio Scerbanenco Award, and the next year La donna dei fiori di carta, which would earn him international recognition. In 2013 his novel L’ipotesi del male won the Giorgio Scerbanenco Award. Writer and host of the Saturday night prime-time program "Il sesto senso" on Raitre, Carrisi has just made his directorial debut with the screen adaptation of his novel The Girl in the Fog, which premiered at the Rome Film Festival.