In an entry about crime novels by country, I pointed out as rising value of the Italian quarry to a certain sandrone dazieri hell-bent on presenting surprising plots in a genre in which it is increasingly difficult to find alternatives or find twists for so many criminal matters imported into fiction.
But Sandrone has that mixture of an energetic imprint maintained even after 50 with a seniority towards virtue that he wins with each new novel he presents. If we want to think of someone to hand over the baton to Andrea CamilleriMaybe Sandrone could be already hitting the track with his mix of good Italian policeman with a suspense in the purest style of the Yankee bestsellers. Because its recent leap to the international market thanks to its series around the fascinating Colomba Caselli character, augurs a long journey in bookstores around the world.
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Sandrone Dazieri
You're not alone
Undoubtedly the meritorious novel that made that definitive lever possible so that we can enjoy the Dazieri universe. With the permeating aroma of the crude realism of a sentimental crime, Colomba Caselli begins to investigate the disappearance of a child in the face of the fateful murder of his mother.
As soon as we make contact with this investigator, we are awakened by that attraction for the role of a police investigator with the instinct to always go further, to doubt everything in our world given to first impressions. Thus, thanks to Colomba, we rethink everything from the wake of his novel approaches, sometimes disconcerting, towards the light of any investigation. His antecedents greatly mark his way of thinking. In his analysis he opens all the scenarios while allowing himself to be advised by Dante, another great genius character with an incomparable instinct to rethink any crisis. Both are sagacious investigators and victims of gruesome pasts.
Perhaps that is why only they will be able to aim at the resolution of an issue whose passage of time points to the worst possible end for the child and the escape of the criminal. Only they can pull the impossible thread of the red herrings. Only they can demolish the trompe l'oeil of a criminal mind that traces, from its twisted intelligence, the modus operandi for its hatred and revenge.
The Angel
A perfect development towards that final effect. An exquisite trick to unravel a mystery that keeps the reader's heart in a fist. Once again, in the growing stream of female protagonists in crime fiction, a policewoman, Deputy Commissioner Caselli takes the reins of an extremely grim case in which an Angel has been in charge of exterminating all those who have traveled in a carriage of first class from Milan to Rome. The first image is terrifying. The train arrives at the station, the doors of this VIP car open but nobody leaves.
Imagine the scene. The open door, you come to see what happens. Everyone in there is dead ... The first investigations focus on international terrorism. But Colomba Caselli is not carried away by this first line of investigation. Conscientious and not prone to being carried away by summary impressions, the deputy commissioner looks for other lines to investigate.
When Colomba and Dante Torre, his necessary collaborator, get involved in solving the case, they begin to discover details that point to another type of justification for the massacre.That's where the thriller itself makes its way into the plot. The reality becomes entirely mysterious, surrounded by a disturbing atmosphere of black omens. The characters, outlined with great skill, end up being entirely ours.
We share uneasiness and dwell at times in the spirit of evil. All the scenes acquire an I don't know what of imminent tragedy, an aftertaste of fear due to the mysterious enigma that seems to lead everything towards doom.
Sandrone Dazieri recovers sensations from his previous book You are not alone. With the same deputy commissioner Colomba Caselli. But the new plot approach surprises again, with a tremendous ending, in the aspect of what can become a crime novel ...
The king
A novel in which wear and tear presents Colomba Caselli about to be devoured by that nemesis that every noir hero ends up facing. It is the fate of good in a criminal genre that must always comply with the canons of maximum tension from the involvement of anyone who intends to reveal the face of evil on a recurring basis.
On this occasion little Tommy appears in the darkest days of Colomba to fulfill that destiny in which tragedy appears from the first scene. He is an autistic boy. From the gaps of his reasoning, his pitiful state covered in blood points to any possibility. The human mind is capable of the most ominous even in its most defenseless guise. Now that Dante is not with her to face this new "case", everything nevertheless points towards him. Dante, his abduction when he was just a child and his abductor, "the father." A strange nexus seems to link past and present. With the macabre and theatrical aspect of someone who has been able to prepare everything for the final scene, Colomba will not be able to give up entering the scene.
Because, even if he does not confess it, he knows that this time everything is focused on his character, his life, his fears. And although she doubts that she has the necessary forces, she is fully willing to play her role towards the most sinister truth.
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Do not run away
Some of the worst psychopaths fictionalized or extracted from reality itself develop a strange instinct like a trophy collector. The animal locked in its cage with which to try the most delirious experiments... Only sometimes the matter gets out of hand and their magnetism for evil focuses on the human as an exponent of their frustrations and their need to make known the most atrocious hatred and animosity.
Upon returning from the institute, Amala Cavalcante perceives that a man is following her and before opening the door of her house she vanishes. Waking her up, a sharp pain in her shoulder uncovers her horror: she has a cable screwed into her own flesh that attaches her to the wall and allows her to move around a room. Through a hole she manages to pass a message to the outside, but shortly after she receives an answer: Do not run away.
Amala's aunt, the famous lawyer Francesca Cavalcante, begins to suspect that her niece has been kidnapped by a murderer who strangled several teenagers thirty years ago. She herself took charge of defending the man she was sentenced for that crime, and whom she always believed to be innocent. In the frantic search to save Amala, Francesca will be joined by an extravagant Israeli tourist, Gerry, the key to bringing the truth to light. Dazieri, a master of addictive intrigue, takes us breathlessly to a high-impact finale.
