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 truce 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 are after his mark.
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.
You can now buy the novel The Whisperer, the new book by Donato Carrisi, here: