General Fiction

Sua Eccellenza perde un pezzo

(His Excellency Loses an Item)

Garzanti, October 2023, pp.304

In a new case, Marshal Maccadò deals with an unexplained robbery at an eventful boat excursion organised by two baker brothers on Lake Como.

Bellano, 1930. The Scaccola brothers take turns in their bakery in a perfect synchronicity, which, however, starts unravelling on the morning of 7 April, when they get involved in organising a boat trip in Bellano for the Como bakers, on the occasion of the anniversary of the foundation of Rome.
When this important day comes, everything goes wrong because, on top of everything else, a robbery takes place and Marshal Maccadò has to investigate it and divide his attention between the case and his wife, who could make his life hell.

Garzanti, October 2023, pp.304

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Andrea Vitali

Andrea Vitali was born in 1956 on the eastern shore of Lake Como, where he still lives and works as a medical doctor. He started writing novels in 1989 with Il procuratore (The Prosecutor) and since then has kept up his prolific career by accumulating a series of literary prizes as being a finalist in the Strega prize. A success that’s lasted 20 years, made up exclusively of bestsellers, first places in the charts, prizes, and ecstatic reviews from the press and critics. More than 3,500,000 readers in Italy alone.

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