Bari, Southern Italy, December 2009.
A triple homicide in the city centre two days before Christmas and the discovery, a week before, of a middle-aged woman's corpse in one of the city's parks catapult inspector Andrea Pantaleo into a double investigation with a totally unpredictable outcome. But it is Gianrico Salvemini, the Provincial Deputy Chief of Police, to call Pantaleo to the scene of the triple homicide. Something behind the brutal crime has terrified the Deputy Chief. Something from his past. The dead of the present and those of a nightmare started many years before are somehow connected. A nightmare that can be interrupted only by Andrea Pantaleo, an experienced inspector and a very, very special man...

Claudio Calabrese is a well-known author on Amazon, in Italy. He is an engineer, author of detective novels, science fiction, fantasy and romantic comedies. In Italy he was successful mainly thanks to the inspector Pantaleo's series, which allowed him to abandon his profession and devote himself to writing full-time novels. He lives in Bari, the splendid capital of Puglia, in the south of Italy, with his wife Monica and their black cat Aramìs.