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A new case for private investigator Elia Contini, who works between northern Italy and Switzerland. A detective novel in which suspense and turns of events are cleverly intertwined with an ironic reflection on human passions and vulnerability.

Contini is called to take on the case of a disappearance that goes back twenty years; in 1998 Eugenio Torres, a famous doctor who loved trekking and promoted hospitals in Niger disappeared during a trek in the Swiss mountains. Now his children want to find out what really happened. One day, a young migrant arrives in Switzerland from the Nigerian Sahara, claiming that he has proof Torres is still alive and in need of help.
An odd pair of investigators is formed: the Swiss detective and the man from the desert. As they investigate the past, they are lead to Torres’s best friend who confesses to having killed him out of jealousy in 1998 and to having thrown him in a gorge in a rocky area. How can it be then, that today Eugenio Torres is signalling his presence, as if he were still alive?

Previous titles of the Contini’s series:
L’uomo senza casa/The Homeless Man (2008); La sparizione/The Disappearance (2010); Il giudice e la rondine/The Judge and the Swallow (2014); L’arte del fallimento/The Art of Failure (2016).