KILL THE FATHER
BY SANDRONE DAZIERI • (Simon & Schuster) Out now
When a woman is beheaded in a park outside Rome and her six-year-old son vanishes, police assigned to the case assume an abusive husband is the culprit. However, the Chief of Rome’s Major Crimes Unit has his doubts, and lures Deputy Captain Colomba Caselli—on medical leave after surviving a bomb explosion which left her with PTSD panic attacks—to investigate with the assistance of the cripplingly claustrophobic Dante Torre, a modern-day Sherlock Holmes who spent his childhood trapped inside a concrete silo by a man known only as “The Father”.
Increasingly unsure of who to trust, and believing his captor to be back and active, Torre and Caselli find themselves…
Full review published in Crime Scene, #7 (Spring 2017).
