Title: Death's dark abyss
First published: October 2006
Description: Carlotto (The Goodbye Kiss), who served time for a murder he didn't commit before becoming a writer, has crafted a subtle and disturbing tale of the effects of violence on its survivors. Wine salesman Silvano Contin's unremarkable but happy life is irrevocably shattered when a pair of bank robbers seize his wife and young son as hostages, and then execute them.
Subjects: Crime, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Murderers, Murder victims' families, Revenge