Genoa in the winter of 1992. While the celebrations for the five-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America are changing the face of the city’s harbor, the murder of a young man, Luca, shocks a group of friends. When suspicion falls on Teresa, the case seems to be closed. This tidy solution will be overturned by a remarkable duo: Diego Ingravallo, a police inspector whose surname groans under a weighty literary legacy, and Paolo Luzi, a psychologist who is a sort of walking lie detector.
Bruno Morchio first wrote Maccaia in 1999, followed by La creûza degli ulivi, but neither was published until a new publishing house, Fratelli Frilli Editori, was founded in 2000 and brought out his third effort, Una storia da carruggi. That book’s success led to the release of his two earlier novels. The adventures of Morchio’s private detective Bacci Pagano would continue under the aegis of Garzanti, which published Con la morte non si tratta, Le cose che non ti ho detto, Rossoamaro, Colpi di coda, Lo spaventapasseri, Un conto aperto con la morte, and Fragili verità. In 2013 his novel Il profumo delle bugie was shortlisted for the Bancarella Prize, while in 2015 Rizzoli published Morchio’s Il testamento del Greco.
