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Noir

Il trattamento del silenzio

(The Silence Treatment)

Ugo Guanda Editore, February 2023, pp.624

In the streets of a Milan saturated with rain and corruption, Chief Inspector Mandelli and Inspector Casalengo are back once again, in a breathless crescendo, dealing with the dead bodies of art collectors, brutally tortured, and a serial killer looking for young prey.

In November, there is more shadow than light. It isn’t an easy time for the men and women of the violent crime task force, overwhelmed by eight shocking days of blood and violence. What is the connection between the horrifically tortured bodies of two well-known art collectors and the disappearance of an antique book that contains an ancestral secret? What insane instinct is unleashing the madness of a serial killer looking for young female prey? The personal lives of the calm Chief Inspector Mandelli and the handsome Inspector Casalegno get entangled in the thick web of the manhunt. All the members of the team take part, this time with the help of a charming, dynamic policewoman from the Valtellina Valley and a grounded, wise carabinieri major from the Amalfi coast – all that in a fierce, murderous downpour where Evil seems to drown everything, even the investigators.

 

Ugo Guanda Editore, February 2023, pp.624

  • “Gian Andrea Cerone shows extraordinary dexterity and brilliant editing (given the antique printing press, hand-writing composer) as he proceeds line by line through his black encyclopaedia.”

    Robinson, La Repubblica

  • “The plot of Trattamento is complex and sturdy, rich in twists, different aspects and topical issues […]. The author (…) shows a particular talent for powerful, impressive and adrenaline-filled finales. Forget biblical curses – Cerone is a blessing for the reader, who closes the book, feeling deeply satisfied.” 

    Severino Colombo, La Lettura, Corriere della sera

  • “Cerone is a storyteller with inexhaustible and visually rich creativity (…) able to transport the reader into a whirlwind of characters and deceptions and plot twists.” 

    Raffaella Silipo, Tuttolibri

  • “A new, highly-skilled interpreter (…) an entrancing style that slots in the plot and the personal lives of the investigators flawlessly and without brackets (…), all the various characters are successfully drawn.”

    Fabrizio d’Esposito, il Fatto Quotidiano

  • “With short but intense chapters […] you are glued until the final line, amid a whirlwind of tricks and plot twists that never seem to end.” 

    Lucio Luca, Robinson, La Repubblica

Gian Andrea Cerone

Gian Andrea Cerone, class 1964, lives in Milan. He has long-standing experience in the field of communications, public and institutional relations, as well as traditional, digital and TV publishing. Among other things, he was an external relations advisor at the Ministry for Economic Development and in charge of istitutional relations at EXPO 2015. In 2018, he founded the successful publishing platform Storielibere podcast. In 2021, Guanda published his fiction debut, Le notti senza sonno (Sleepless Nights, 2022), the first novel in a series that sees the investigative team in Milan’s violent crime task force in action, followed by Il trattamento del silenzio (The Silent Treatment, 2023), both finalists for the Scerbanenco prize.

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