The shadow of Andrea Camilleri It is very long in the Italian noir genre, even more so for an author and pupil like Antonio Manzini himself. But new voices like those of sandrone dazieri or Antonio Manzini himself have come to stay. New sap that gives off that tendency and respect for a Latin black gender, it can be said that it originated from Vaquez Montalban, and that rambles between the sordid and rugged where evil rides, with its point of social criticism about the social gears of our world but that also launches itself to new conquests of the noir genre in which the thriller trend ends up being currently the most successful .
The Manzini case points to that successful combination of the classic Mediterranean blacks dotted with corruption, of dark characters transferred from our reality, with a clearly suspenseful plot, where the violent case, the homicide, composes a puzzle that serves as the perfect hook for a maximum voltage reading.
Manzini already moves with ease in that current black scenery that perfectly serves the cause of suspense. Converting each location into that world of estrangement in which as a reader you can intuit a cutting tension between enigmatic presences and behaviors is a tool that is already very widespread in the genre. And every current crime novel writer has to know how to capture that trompe l'oeil capable of hiding any space in our world to end up offering a convincing and disturbing transformation.
It is very likely that dedication to the world of acting at all its levels will help Manzini in this task of disguising characters, giving them life among the shadows of the plot and making them believable so that the whole of the novel can always be felt fully. authenticity.
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Black track
The appearance of Inspector Schiavone seems like a new resurgence of the classic heroes of the genre. Heroes subjected to the ups and downs of morality, subjected to very human contradictions and faced with the underworlds on which the mechanism of our reality is based.
Even in the most physical description of the character we enjoy the man dissatisfied with his destiny and his dedication to undoing criminal wrongs. A pleasure to discover this new investigator of the evil of our days.
The death of a man crushed by a snow machine on the Champoluc ski slopes soon looms as more than an accident. Someone put the deceased there, hoping that the snow would hide the facts and the clues for a good season.
The final crushing of the body under the machine does little to resolve the case, but Schiavone has the determination, despite its contradictory nature, to move forward to the end of an investigation.
The dead man is not just anybody and Schiavone's motives for elucidating the cause of his death move between obscure interests and a frank interest. Between revenge, passions carried to extremes, money, love and final hatred that can transform everything.
Sun of may
Rocco Schiavone. In this fourth sequel, we have already become quite familiar with him, with his modus operandi, his lapses that always place him in the eye of the hurricane and his twisted vision of the world that ends up orienting him to the twisted materialization of crime.
Schiavone has his powers and his contacts to do his job infallibly, finally. But his movements also put him at constant risk. When her home is broken into and a friend is shot to death, her worldview finally falls apart.
And that is where Manzini makes use of his deepest narrative to introduce us to the character in search of salvation from unpredictable attacks, while seeking salvation from the guilt and grudges of his past.
A literary journey with a black genre appearance but also with a human background that speaks to us of betrayals, guilt, of that backpack that each one carries over the years ... A story that composes a social canvas of many spheres of Italy in those that evil roam where you least imagine it.
7-7-2007
Not so long ago I read the novel 22/11/63, Stephen King, about Keneddy's murder and a fascinating fantasy drift. The use of a date as a title for a novel points to the critical moment, to the day when everything changed for better or worse, to the turning point, to the day of the unsolved crime.
In the novel Sol de Mayo, many aspects of Schiavone's past were buried, interestedly hidden by the author to give course to the plot without finishing delving into those secrets of the inspector. On this occasion we throw ourselves into the open grave of the past of the inspector in Rome.
It was there, in the Italian capital, where Rocco Schiavone raised what he thought would be his ideal life together with Marina, his wife. Perhaps it was a matter of his ambition or his fondness for la dolce vita. The point is that one day he finds himself alone and abandoned.
Perhaps in your confusion you start to meddle incorrectly in their cases. Until the discovery of a drug trafficking network ends up serving as his perfect plot. Too many enemies in his short tenure in Rome ... The perfect prequel to meet a character who seems to re-green the more traditional black genre, punctuated by the most current genre.
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Make game
The world of games is the clear demonstration that the underworld wins, like the banks. The enormous amount of money that this activity moves is directly proportional to the social disaster that it creates. Nothing more noir than an investigation into the strings pulled by gambling magnates. Because..., in the same way that you can trick a roulette wheel, everything else always smells of tricks and deceit that even reaches the political level, given its impunity and carte blanche to continue destroying lives. Ramblings aside, we find a crime novel that provides that acid and corrosive look at the game world.
A murder in the Saint-Vincent casino, one of the most prestigious in Europe, plunges Rocco Schiavone into the world of compulsive gambling, gambling and greed. Despite the complexity of the case, the underboss can't free himself from his past... and putting his life back together becomes more difficult because the shadow of his enemy Enzo Baiocchi still looms over him. And there are still many questions to be answered: what happened to Caterina?, why did she betray him?, and why did the prosecution begin to investigate the death of Luigi Baiocchi? With his acid sense of humor, his scathing dialogue, and an uncompromising look at contemporary society, this new investigation by Rocco Schiavone is a real treat for fans of crime fiction.
No more bets
A case full of unspeakable passions, crimes and vices. Rocco Schiavone, the most politically incorrect deputy boss, returns. An eighth installment already converted into a necessary dose for those hooked on a Schiavone as incorrigible as he is adorable, as disconcerting as he is heroic if the matter requires it...
While Rocco Schiavone is still unclear about the identity of the murderer of Romano Favre, retired inspector of the Saint-Vincent casino, an armored van with three million euros coming from that famous betting house and destined for the Carige bank in Aosta mysteriously disappears. When the body of Enrico Manetti, one of the vehicle's guards, appears dazed and half-frozen on a bend in the road, Rocco begins to suspect that the two cases may be related. And as if the intrigues of the casino, the inhospitable climate of Aosta and the problems of young Gabriele were not enough, Enzo Baiocchi, Rocco's worst enemy, threatens to reveal secrets that could put the deputy boss in prison.
Excellent author, more than police romances, extremely accurate costume romances.