Come delfini tra pescecani

In this instalment in the crime series featuring the Monteverde Five: the police officers in the quiet Roman district of the same name, united by their frailties and their impressive investigative skills.

The Monteverde Five, led by Chief Inspector Ansaldi, are at grips with an apparent suicide that will turn out to be thorny, to say the least, because of its connection with politics.

Chief Inspector Ansaldi is an excellent police officer, even if he has for some time suffered from hypochondria and anxiety attacks that make even the simplest activities challenging, in his life as well as his work. Fortunately, Monteverde, the district to which he has been assigned, is an oasis of peace amid the chaos of Rome: a quiet place where nothing ever happens. That may be why four “peculiar” individuals have been placed under his command. They are the Monteverde Five: men and women grappling with their weaknesses, but, together, able to turn them into strengths. One Friday afternoon, a lonely, widowed octagenarian is found dead in his apartment, a noose around his neck. It looks like an easy case, a classic suicide. But something doesn’t quite add up in the eyes of Ansaldi and his team, and, in just a few days, this minor suspicion develops into an investigation that upsets not only the peace of Monteverde but also that of the corridors of power.