Crimes After Hours

A shrewish and nosy typist decides to stay in the office after duty hours, to rummage through the personal effects of her hated colleagues, that mock her since years, in search of compromising material to use against them. At the same time and in the very neighborhood, a cynical murderer with a split personality is lurking, intent on carrying out his cruel game, entrusting the choice of his next, unsuspecting victim to chance. The solitary lives of Alice and Cold Hands/Warm Hands are destined to fatally intertwine because of the dark and unknown underground of the Prati district of Rome. The investigations into the trail of senseless crimes, that Cold Hands leaves behind, are entrusted to Riccardo Rosco, a commissioner with a rough character and a disastrous private life. Rome and the particular conformation of its Prati neighborhood, captured in the late Seventies and masterfully recalled, take on a primary role in the unfolding of the events in this novel that, due to its multidimensional shape and high narrative tension, is to be read in one breath.