Review: Highly recommended.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 22, 2013
Giacomo Giammatteo has an amazing ability to construct characters that are not perfect people and fill them with the breath of life.  As before, in his other works, he has excelled again. Yes, various people did bad things, but these were human things. The finger on the pulse of absolute reality is there.Gino, a detective suffering from the trauma of less than perfect completions of other cases of a similar nature is now charged with the rescue of a kidnapped girl. One of my favourite characters from another book by this author comes into play. A very sensitive dichotomy of the dynamics of various family structures is laid out bare. Twist and turns in this plot left this reader breathless. I had to devour it in one sitting, although it caused me to sit up to the wee hours of the morning. This was a book I just could not put down.Through all of this ran a thread of a intensely intelligent bad person,  trying to stay one pace ahead of the cops. Once again, I was sitting on the edge of my seat. I hate books where I can predict the outcome and I most certainly was blind-sided by this one. Love it when this happens.No, this is not my normal genre of choice, but I would follow any and all of this author's books in a heartbeat. He never fails to deliver and I have them all. I have no hesitation in recommending this one as a purchase. After you have read it, go check out the others. These books are truly special.