Bøger af Ilaria Tuti

"Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a trailblazing criminal detective on the Italian police force, is on sick leave, recovering from her recent brush with death in pursuit of a killer. But none of her colleagues-not even her partner, Inspector Marini-know that her Alzheimer's is getting worse, and that Teresa is unsure she will ever return to work. Teresa's plans for retirement are shelved, however, when she is urgently summoned to meet with serial killer Giacomo Mainardi. Refusing to speak with anyone but Teresa, whose investigative work twenty-seven years prior landed him in maximum security prison, Mainardi has disconcerting news: somebody is after him, and only Teresa holds the key to keeping everyone, including herself, safe. To solve the case, Teresa must come face to face with a past she thought she'd buried, back to when Giacomo first began to kill, and Teresa-newly pregnant and married to an abusive man-did everything she could to catch him"--

En uopklaret sag med rødder tilbage til Anden Verdenskrig lander på politikommissær Teresa Battaglias bord: Et kunstværk frembragt en af de sidste dage under krigen er malet med blodet fra et menneskehjerte. Sporene leder Battaglia og hendes yngre assistent Massimo Marini ind i de øde egne omkring den sagnomspundne Resiadal på grænsen mellem Slovenien og Italien, men her er deres tilstedeværelse uønsket.I det bjergrige og tyndt befolkede område er det let at tabe orienteringen, særligt hvis man som Teresa Battaglia er ramt af Alzheimers og langsomt mister sit overblik og sin uforlignelige skarpsindighed. Hvad der tidligere var hendes stærkeste våben, er nu blevet hendes største svaghed. Og hun kan ikke længere holde det skjult.

"A decades-old murder investigation has landed on Superintendent Teresa Battaglia's desk. DNA analysis has revealed that a painting from the final days of World War II contains matter from a human heart. Teresa is able to trace the evidence to Val Resia, one of Italy's most isolated, untouched regions. When Teresa's investigation hits too close to the truth, a second human heart is hung at the valley's entrance, a warning not to cross its threshold. Meanwhile, Teresa must not only deal with rapidly progressing physical and cognitive ailments, but also someone she hoped never to see again-a man who is now her supervisor"--

Mit navn er Teresa Battaglia. Jeg har en hemmelighed, som jeg ikke engang selv tør kende, og for første gang i mit liv er jeg bange.Der er noget, der skjuler sig i de ældgamle skove, på de stenede bjergsider og mellem flodens isduftende, smaragdgrønne vandreservoirer. Jeg kan se det på blodsporene, og jeg ved af erfaring, at det kun er begyndelsen.Noget fortvivlende har fundet sted i disse bjerge. Noget der kræver alle mine efterforskningsevner.Mit navn er Teresa Battaglia, jeg er politikommissær, specialist i profiling, og hver eneste dag vandrer jeg gennem helvede. Mit bedste våben er ikke min pistol eller uniform – det er min hjerne. Men den forråder mig. Ikke min krop, slidt af tidens tand, eller mit forpinte hjerte. Mit klarsyn er i fare, og det betyder, at efterforskningen også er det.

THE SECOND INSPECTOR TERESA BATTAGLIA NOVELA portrait painted in blood. A valley shrouded in secrecy. A woman fighting for her life.

Ilaria Tuti's debut thriller explores a remote community in Northern Italya place of secrets, eerie folktales, and primal instincts. In a quiet village surrounded by ancient woods and the imposing Italian Alps, a man is found naked with his eyes gouged out. It is the first in a string of gruesome murders. Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a detective with a background in criminal profiling, is called to investigate. Battaglia is in her mid-sixties, her rank and expertise hard-won from decades of battling for respect in a male-dominated Italian police force. While she's not sure she trusts the young city inspector assigned to assist her, she sees right away that this is no ordinary case: buried deep in these mountains is a dark history that may endanger a group of eight-year-old children toward whom the killer seems to gravitate. As Teresa inches closer to the truth, she must also confront the possibility that her body and mind, worn down by age and illness, may fail her before the chase is over.

THE FIRST INSPECTOR TERESA BATTAGLIA NOVELA TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTHAn idyllic village in the Alps. A legacy of sin. An evil hiding in the shadows.