Death's Dark Abyss

The author known as an Italian James Ellroy delivers "a raw, extremely dark portrait of a crime and its aftermath" (The Washington Post).

During a bungled robbery attempt, Raffaello Beggiato takes a young woman and her eight-year-old child hostage. He later murders both in cold blood. Beggiato is arrested, tried, and sentenced to life. Undone by his loss, the victims' father and husband, Silvano Contin, plunges into an ever-deepening abyss until the day, fifteen years later, when the murder...