From the first chapter: “There comes a moment when you start to wonder how you got to this point. And you wish you could disappear, be somewhere else, you wish it had never started. Maybe this is happening to me because I’m a woman, because I’m not a detective, because the day I graduated in psychology I thought everything would be different.

Here I am, in the middle of the night, in the gloomy undergrowth of the South Milan Agricultural Park, and I’m scared. I’m digging with the little folding snow shovel Stefano gave me, which I’ve never before taken out of the car. I know that, soon, a hand will start to emerge from the ground, or maybe a foot, or a piece of material, and gradually, if I’m brave enough, I’ll unearth a dead body, or what’s left of it. It’s the price I have to pay to be sure it’s all true.

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REVIEWS, COMMENTS AND INTERVIEWS

“Perissinotto yet again puts [his writing] to the test with the thousand facets of daily life and with the thin line separating an honest and normal life from crime” La Stampa

“Perissinotto is an able conjurer of melancholic and damp atmospheres, soaked with bafflement...hopefully we will read more about Anna” Il Mattino

“Perissinotto...prefers psychological probing describing the feelings and emotions of his characters” La Repubblica Milano

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An interview (Italian) at the Anteprime festival in Pietrasanta, June 2011:

Five questions (Italian), again at Anteprime:

Booktrailer of Per Vendetta, published in May 2011 (Italian):

Interview (in Italian) by RAI on the censoring of Per Vendetta at the International Salone del Libro in Turin in 2010:

Alessandro reading pages from his books in the Anna Pavesi trilogy: