***** Italian detective
story with an international appeal
You do
understand immediately, reading the first sentence of this novel, to be
confronted to the work of an author who knows what he’s doing. The quick
beginning of “Double Murder for Maresciallo Maggio” is a real hook. After
reading it, you have to keep going and you find yourself immediately in the
middle of the action, forced to continue to turn the pages.
With an
almost studied style but at the same time a very smooth one, Zampa involves you
in the adventures of this provincial maresciallo struggling with a case out of
the ordinary, characterised by international implications. But there aren’t
only some international characters, it also concerns the impeccable narrative
structure, which winks to great authors of bestsellers. The story is shown to
us, little by little, starting from different points of view, which then
converge, thanks to the investigations of Maggio, until the resolution of the
case. All this is set in Italy, cleverly mixing real aspects
within the fiction constructed by the author, in a way that you can’t to
discern one from the other. What you receive is the distinct feeling that the
story told not only could happen, but maybe it could be already happened.
A pleasant
reading takes you to the epilogue, leaving you with the desire to learn more
about its protagonist and face with him new mysterious cases.
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