Publisher's Synopsis
An indomitable and epic investigator in a mysterious Milan. A tough and fragile woman, an unsolved homicide, a father in search of the truth. Penelope wakes up at a stranger's house, after the umpteenth night to forget. She walks alone and in silence, walking the gray streets of Milan's autumn. She was working as a prosecutor until a mysterious incident dramatically ended his career. One day a man comes to her who was once investigated for the murder of his wife. The case was filed, but it did not erase the terrible suspicions that had fallen on him. The man asks her to take on the case to regain lost honor and to know what to tell his daughter when she is older and asks what happened to her mother. Thus begins an exciting investigation that winds through unknown streets of the city and the memories of a life that will never return. With this novel, of a writing that does not give the reader respite, Gianrico Carofiglio presents us with a female figure with epic lines, an absolutely unforgettable heroine.
