The legacy of Camilleri it is in a safe place. Several and innovative current Italian narrators insist on breaking into the noir genre with the unexpected virulence of the new voices. It happened last year with Luca D´Andrea and «The substance of evil»And finds its replica as soon as 2019 begins with an Ilania Tuti who shares, in addition to nationality, age with the already laureate Luca.
If both continue their literary careers, an all-out struggle to lead that quarry of the italian noir that so many satisfactions are being given to the avid readers of the morbid reader that is this black genre. At the moment both share scenery in mountainous landscapes of deep Italy in which the echoes of the valleys can awaken the deepest hatred and the most intense destructive madness.
Be that as it may, the bucolic becomes in both cases something sinister. The mountain and its environment is life, oxygen, but its forests harbor atavistic legends and dark fears about the wild. The human being can return to his most beastly side to sow evil. And nothing better than an environment of exuberant nature to delve into that mixture of the sinister and the ancestral.
Dolores Redondo perhaps he opened paths of the noir genre among the woods with his Baztán trilogy exported to the whole world. And now it is Ilaria Tuti, from Italy, who returns to offer a thriller of great natural spaces with absolute female protagonism.
Because Teresa Battaglia, the one in charge of investigating some deaths and the disappearance of a baby, patrimonializes much of the narrative tension. Her search for answers to stop the criminal is completed by sad memories and guilt that haunt her from the very shadows of her being, turned into a lush forest in which she is losing more and more.
Massimo Marini is that necessary assistant who can support the protagonist in her worst moments of disorientation. Because the case seems tailor-made to unbalance her. The events conspire to open the gates of a hell made of forest and mountains in which a perennial echo reverberates that shows madness and evil; and that he faces the toughest struggle from Teresa's internal forum and towards that dark certainty that evil, hell, is all one.
You can now buy the novel Flores sobre el infierno, the new book by Ilaria Tuti, here: