La danza del lupo

A new, intense and adrenaline-filled thriller: in a fascinating, atmospheric setting in the Italian Apennines, a brutal ritual murder is discovered, and a ruthless killer is on the loose.

On the case: the biologist Folco Mancini and the newly appointed captain of Carabinieri Alma Rovere: an extraordinary yet tormented woman, afflicted by an extremely rare neurological condition: hyperthymesia, or absolute memory. Every word, gesture, and detail remains imprinted in her mind forever. An extraordinary investigative gift — and, at the same time, a curse.

Sibillini Mountains, 2016. Folco Mancini discovers the body of a young French zoologist in a wolf’s den: her heart has been replaced with that of a she-wolf in a macabre ritual. The investigation is entrusted to Captain Alma Rovere, who has just transferred there for a deeply personal reason: to find her brother’s murderer.

But Alma is hiding another secret. Her rare neurological condition makes her incapable of forgetting: every image, every word, every sound is impressed in her memory, including the painful memories from her past she longs to escape.

As the investigation unfolds, suspicion falls on multiple suspects – even on Folco himself, with whom Alma develops an unexpected connection. He is the first man to breach her solitude, someone who sees her for who she is: a solitary huntress, led by instinct and sharpened senses. While every suspect has a motive and the leads keep multiplying, the killer remains unknown – and no one is safe.