Nel nero degli abissi

The Monteverde Five are back with a race against time to solve a new case: the murder of a prostitute in one of Rome’s most typical, beautiful parks, just when the world’s attention is focused on the Italian capital.

The large park of Villa Pamphili, a stone’s throw from the Vatican and Monteverde, has two very different sides: by day it’s a park with children, elderly people and people practising sports; by night it turns into an illegal refuge for the homeless, drug addicts and prostitutes. At dawn on a chilly January morning, a prostitute is found dead, brutally murdered with a blade. She was Italian, a little over twenty, a young woman alone who prostituted herself in order to suppert herself at university. The murder has taken place at the worst possible time, two weeks before an important political summit involving the main European heads of state, and with all eyes focused on Rome. Whether or not there is a connection between the two events, a terrible race against time has just begun for the chief inspector.