The Condemnation of the Living (ePub)

He has a plan. He has a vision. He has a design in mind. And no one can stop him.
This is not a routine investigation. This is a case unlike any other. This is the darkness in which you will reflect yourself, and nothing will be as before.
The child found in the night is hiding something. Fosco claims that he was kidnapped but managed to escape, running through the Tuscan countryside. Nobody believes him, or maybe no one has really tried to listen to him. I did. And I know that inside his story lies something terrible. Something bigger than him and perhaps even bigger than me. But what can it be? It is only when another child disappears that I begin to see a window of opportunity to carry out my investigation.
Fosco and Andrea live far away from one another, they don't know each other, they have nothing in common. Except their appearance: they're identical, they could be twins. Andrea, however, does not reappear: it's up to me to find him, to find the person who killed his father and took him away from his mother. It's up to me to save his life. But I can't do it alone.
The only one who believes in me is Fabio Costa, an outcast policeman with a dark past, exiled in a small provincial police station. While the number of victims increases and enigmas become more and more indecipherable, I understand that the author of these crimes responds to a superior plan. His obsession is morbid, cruel, unstoppable: to transform his visionary follies into violent realities, in delirious works of art.
My name is Valentina Medici, I am the youngest commissioner of the Service, and this is my first real investigation. And it may also be the last of my life. Because no one can fall into a pit so black, so deep, and hope to emerge from it unscathed.