The 3 best books by Donato Carrisi

If there is a current European writer approaching the Dan Brown most successful, that is Donato Carrisi. With the added incentive that his narrative proposal is not restricted to that area of ​​mystery made the basis of suspense and axis of tension.

In the case of Carrisi, everything takes on a blacker tint, a greater insight into that evil. whose certainty comes to materialize in all its characters, from the most wicked to those who share the mission of good to unraveling the enigma of the day.

Carrisi tends to play with that diffuse polarization that surprises and puzzles readers. No one is free from their particular demons and in these types of plots the temptations, fears and guilt that humanize the plot and that give rise to further reflections that complete the entertainment novel with a much richer setting in nuances emerge more than ever.

As is often the case with this type of practically cinematographic plot writers, the transfer between paper and celluloid is something naturalized in the creative advancement of the Italian author who has also never abandoned his dedication to journalism as a complete complement to the gifted communicator for all media.

Not counting his theatrical incursions, his television series and his most punctual passage through the cinema, Carrisi offers us several independent sagas and books where we can always choose great stories.

3 Recommended Novels by Donato Carrisi

The whisperer

In a kind of hybrid narrative between other great references of the Italian black genre such as Camilleri o Luca D'Andrea, to name generational poles of success, Donato Carrisi manages to combine the most brutal noir with the most disturbing enigmas around minds convinced that the gift of death is their end in this world. The psychopathy that guided and guides those ominous serial killers is always linked to the ego, with gifted but unfocused intelligence, diverted towards evil by the trauma of the day or by that animosity that ends up devouring those who make it their only horizon vital.

And in those Carrisi leads us through his new novel, after The Girl in the Fog. In a sharp turn in the development of his new black history, Donato introduces us to the criminologist Goran Gavila and a team willing to give no respite to the murderer specialized in dismembering the arms of his victims. Except that his macabre behavior acquires a meaning that initially escapes the analysis of those who follow his trail.

Because among the five victims with their arms separated from their bodies, none has a sixth limb. The sixth victim becomes the cornerstone to unravel the case, given that the other five crimes seem to lead them to the depths of doubts, without clues, without the slightest hint.

Without a doubt it is a game, one of those disturbing proposals that, in the assassin's mind, is just a departure towards the glory of its creation (or rather its destruction).

Mila Vasquez may be the perfect touchstone to advance something in the general deadlock while, for our part, deduction becomes the main reason for reading. if you are able to weave the loose threads, you can even become that omniscient reader who sees far above what the characters do not know.

Otherwise, if your cabals move between non-enlightening conjectures, you will have to wait until the end to succumb to the turn that the protagonists also suffer, although perhaps not with that disconcerting brilliance of a story that in its development points to an epilogue of greater flights.

The Whisperer, by Donato Carrisi

The master of shadows

A novel that has a lot of disruption compared to a bibliography of the Italian author who already seemed on track towards the noir genre. Although the truth is that the same blackness with which a good current thriller can be built is the one that Carrisi ends up pulling to subject his hometown to the whim of the shadows. A Rome that seemed to await the fateful moment of its blackout like a remote self-fulfilling prophecy, from a vision of Pope Leo X on the brink of death.

At that time, in 1521, any atmospheric phenomenon that led to a sudden darkening of the day pointed to supernatural powers, angry gods, hecatombs ...

Perhaps that is why meeting the claim of a fearful Pope in 2017 is not the most natural thing for Romans in the XNUMXst century. But things just happen until they are redirected towards doom.

And when the electrical system of the entire region must be checked for an unexpected disaster, it seems as if the very hells of hell have been waiting for the moment to take over every corner of the city. A kind of insane telluric power seems to emerge from the catacombs of the old empire.

It is only a matter of time before the electricity returns with its longed-for light. Meanwhile, in the period of twenty-four hours in which it is necessary to maintain the darkness, the old voice of the Pope seems to make all sense. Rome must always stay alight.

The master of shadows

The court of souls

With this novel a new saga began in which we forgot Mila Vasquez to put ourselves in the shoes of Marcus and Sandra.

The novel advances on different planes from which that sinister link is sensed that points to an explosive end. The story flows thanks to a breath of evil that runs through each new scene of a Rome that houses great secrets, guilt, and even deaths that are rewritten as murders pending to be solved.

The extreme situations that each of the characters experience ends up uniting them in that deepening about the revenge instinct that the murderous instinct awakens in the face of a criminal or criminals who seem to make fun of each of their victims in front of the people who knew them.

Lara, the missing or kidnapped girl, the man about to die of a heart attack whose final message reopens an old case, the woman who lost her husband and whose loss now appears after a reckoning ... Rome turned into a city of old women shadows that awaken in the night of the imperial city to devour all the characters.

The court of souls

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The evil hypothesis

We return to the Mila Vázquez saga. And knowing this protagonist, we delve deeper into her essence, associated with the previous novel Lobos to compose a character that invites us to read the saga at once to assume it in all its complexity.

This novel places us in no man's land, in any city and within an office dedicated to searching for missing persons. Disappearances can be more or less forced by direct motivations such as violence in the closest nucleus or by existential uprooting.

The case of Roger Valin is the son who survived the massacre of his family. Or at least that's what the researchers think, who gave him up for missing because they didn't find his body. The time that has elapsed since the massacre is the same that has made Roger a man marked by blood and terror.

And that can only have cultivated a being annulled by sadness or reborn as a monster moved by animosity. In all that time between childhood and adulthood, Roger seems to have planned a comeback in style. And his moment is now, he knows how to move like a shadow and sneak into the most unexpected spaces.

The evil hypothesis

The girl in the mist

In this book, The girl in the mist, the noir genre almost borders on the thriller. Avechot is a sunken town in a valley in the Alps, a space rightly determined to tune in to that feeling of a certain orographic claustrophobia where the mists remain hooked for days and days.

At the entrance of that town a car suffers a slight accident. He drives off the road and comes to a halt in the ditch. At the wheel is Special Agent Vogel. Completely disoriented, he can't quite guess what he is doing there. He should be a long way from that place, on the trail of a missing girl case ...

Still in a state of shock, without knowing if because of the blow or God knows why, he begins to remember that case in which he had been working for a couple of months. He only hoped to once again count on his instinct to once again fill himself with glory in front of the media and the press. As always happened.

And yet now he is completely lost in that strange place, bumpy, without any injuries, although with suspicious blood stains on his clothes. The dark and dense space seems to be strangely variegated on his figure. And then the media arrives. Vogel does not know what they are doing there or what will happen from then on.

The girl in the mist
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