In the third instalment of the series, the life of Inspector Anita Landi reaches a turning point with a marriage proposal while she is investigating the death of a mother and daughter. She is consequently forced to concentrate and probe into the young middle classes of a shady Milan steeped in illegal activities and decline.

Present-day Milan. The dead bodies of a mother and daughter are discovered in an apartment in the city. The father, who lives in Ireland, is involved in a shady traffic of waste disposal. Elisa, the eighteen-year-old victim, grew up with quarrelsome and violent parents, and suffered from mental issues. Anita discovers that she was friends with the daughters of a fifty-something Milanese couple, currently her guests. She starts to investigate and enters a world of parties, the prostitution of “nice” girls, elderly men ready to take advantage of them, violence and ecomafia. More people are killed: Elisa’s jealous boyfriend and the body building instructor who looked after her family circle. It is Marika’s biological child who provides the key to the Elisa case.

A race against time where young inspector Anita Landi has to draw on her investigative skills to stop a sadistic, ruthless murderer who’s decimating the city’s doctors.

Chiara Corsi is a calm, fulfilled woman, but a road accident shatters her happiness for ever. Chiara is sure that the death of her loved ones didn’t happen through a stroke of bad luck but through the negligence of the medical staff who didn’t administer adequate treatment. Consequently, when a murderer begins to target medical staff and paramedics, she’s the first to be suspected. Framed by a series of clues, she ends up in jail and charged with murder. Only the murders don’t stop while she’s in detention… Then who is the murderer? The case ends up on Anita Landi’s desk, and she upsets all the theories so far put forward by the Perugia investigators, which leads to the arrest of characters above all suspicion and finally makes her realise she possesses what everybody else already knows she does: a great talent for investigation.

A murder-suicide; the accidental fall of a nosey doorwoman; a tenant who dies of a heart attack. These are the ingredients of this crime novel – full of possible culprits and red herrings – set in Milan. The investigator is young Inspector Anita Landi, determined to find the truth despite all the powers standing in her way.

On a warm June day, Milan is shocked by three deaths: Luigi Cortesi and Greta Kampf (the former wife of a plastic surgeon) – apparently a murder-suicide in an elegant apartment in one of the city’s most attractive streets – and the doorwoman (accidental death?) of a nearby building. Anita Landi, a young police inspector, starts to investigate, certain that these three cases are connected. Opposed by colleagues, who have her removed from the enquiry, Anita nevertheless follows her lead. She is helped by Giacomo Valli, the manager of the two buildings, a kind, calm man who lets her stay at his home, as well as by his friend and fellow tenant Francesco Gazzola, a prestigious, respected lawyer who is in the midst of a strong identity crisis.

Anita has to find her way through a complex investigation where nothing is as it seems and everyone is a suspect: wealthy, ruthless brokers, sweet old ladies, unscrupulous plastic surgeons, parents searching for justice, angry, doggedly immature children, confident bloggers, police informers and secret service agents. Because it’s in the moneyed, elegant Milan that counts that a murderer hides, ready to strike again.