The Italian crime novel has always had a special tune with the most classic genre cultivated in Spain, the one that Muñoz Molina exalted, Gonzalez Ledesma o Andrea Camilleri.
But the new writers of this genre, on both sides of the western Mediterranean, do not always adhere to the classic patterns in which the black label served to enter between corruption and the underworld as the underlying mechanism of reality and power.
Authors like antonella lattanzi they are more concerned with exploring the possibilities of a black genre that brings new perspectives, neither better nor worse, different. Because violence, murder, psychopathy ..., all these evils can end up being oriented towards many other problems whose final outbreak can take over the headlines of the press.
In this black story by Antonella Lattanzi, everything begins as one of those idyllic, affable relationships between two parents who broke off all relationships but signed an armistice for the sake of their children. Something very common today.
The less usual begins when after a meeting of convenience and feigned cordiality with which to cheer up your children, something strange ends up violating the situation in the worst way ...
And that's when the mystery serves the narrative cause doubly. In the first place as the foundation of the thriller. In the second instance as a basis to address other very real aspects such as feminism and machismo, prejudices, parallel trials ...
In Carla and in Vito we discover one of those couples who have had to separate their destinies from a love that already sounds like a distant and irretrievable echo. Vito did not end up being the ideal partner or, consequently, the ex-partner who accepts a breakup without further ado.
Between them there was violence, stark at times. And that is why the disappearance of Vito, at the end of that day of cordial reunion, arouses old fears and ruthless suspicions.
The new characters that are incorporated into the plot, such as Amelia, who was Vito's lover, and his family are composing an emotional framework that seems to point to new tragedies when Vito finally appears murdered.
The truth must be known as soon as possible because nobody seems to have enough patience, nor the necessary faith in official investigations ...
You can now buy the novel A Black History, the new book by Antonella Lattanzi, here: