Friday, July 22 , 2022, in Asiago, an interesting literary meeting "Asiago in yellow" awaits you:

• Jacopo De Michelis presents his first novel "La Stazione" (Ed. Giunti).
• Vito Franchini presents his latest book "Il 9 che uccide" (Ed. Giunti).
• Barbara Baraldi presents her book "Cambiare le ossa" (Ed. Giunti).

The appointment, which is part of the cultural review "Aperitif with the Author", organized by the Giunti Library of Asiago, is at 17:30 in Piazza Carli or, in case of bad weather, at the Palazzo del Turismo Millepini.

Free participation.

THE BOOK: THE STATION (ed. Giunti)

Milan, April 2003. Riccardo Mezzanotte, a young inspector with a stormy past, has just taken up his duties in the Railway Police Section of the Central Station. Intolerant of hierarchies and regulations and with an innate propensity to get into trouble, he begins to investigate a case that does not seem to interest anyone else: someone is scattering around the station the corpses of horribly mutilated animals. He soon realizes that there is more underneath than it appears, but identifying the person responsible proves to be a far from easy task. Laura Cordero is twenty years old, beautiful and rich, and hides a secret. There is something in her that makes her different from others. She is used to calling it "the gift" but considers it rather a curse, and has always known that she cannot talk about it with a living soul. She has recently started volunteering in a care center for the marginalized who attend the Central, and she too is looking for someone: two children she has seen several times wandering around the surroundings in the evening, alone and abandoned.

In the course of their respective researches their paths cross. They do not yet know that the two mysteries they are grappling with converge into a greater mystery, nor can they imagine how dark and dangerous it is. Above all dominates the immense bulk of the station, mighty as a fortress, solemn as a mausoleum, enigmatic as an Egyptian pyramid. How many secrets hover in its sumptuous halls, in the painful folds of its history, but above all in its labyrinthine dungeons, largely abandoned, where not even the police normally dare to venture?

To reveal them, Midnight will have to descend into the dark and smelly bowels of the Central, putting at risk everything he has laboriously conquered. Upon his return to the surface, he will no longer be able to look at the world with the same eyes and will understand that the worst is yet to come.

The station is, at the same time, thriller and adventure novel. Mixing the most popular genres with swirling generosity of invention, Jacopo De Michelis continually opens and closes before the eyes of his reader the doors of different yet always connected stories, and leads him around fabulous and disturbing dungeons without ever losing Arianna's thread of his unbridled joy of telling.

Jacopo De Michelis

He was born in Milan in 1968 and lives in Venice, where he works as an editor at Marsilio Editori. He has been a translator, editor of anthologies, editorial consultant and professor of narratology at NABA in Milan. Passionate about photography, he publishes his shots on Instagram. The Station is his first novel.

THE BOOK: THE 9 THAT KILLS (Ed. Giunti)

Years have passed since the scandal that marked the career of Sabina Mondello, a police officer, in Rome. Finally a new operational assignment, rewarding, brings her to Verona, at the head of the Mobile Team. As soon as she arrives in the city Sabina finds herself managing the death of a university student, whose body is found inside the Faculty of Medicine. At the moment everything suggests a suicide, a desperate gesture of a boy too young: a simple routine for the investigators. However, a series of disturbing coincidences with other suspicious deaths and enigmatic farewell phrases bring out a doubt at first latent, then increasingly concrete: behind the 9 suicides identified by Sabina there could be the hand of a puppeteer, a sadistic dragger, a Charon who accompanies lost souls in the afterlife. Only an equally diabolical mind can find the bandolo of this skein soaked in blood: that of Nardo Baggio, who from nowhere reappears in Verona, altering every balance. Nardo is "The predator of souls", the one who upset Sabina's life years ago, and who will turn her upside down again, without asking permission, without discounts. His approaches, his methods, are questionable, always on the edge, but no one else really seems able to give an explanation to the only recurring, omnipresent, weedy clue: the number 9, which will take the protagonists of this investigative vortex back in time, between the children of flowers, the immortal melodies of the Beatles and a demonic sect that sowed death and terror in Los Angeles, in the unforgettable summer of 1969...

Vito Franchini

44 years old, Mantuan origins, Persian births and a life spent changing houses, nations and continents. Graduated in law, judicial police officer, he pours into his writings years of experience in investigations on various criminal areas, as well as his passions of all time: music, anthropology, numerology. The predator of anime (2021), a thriller of surprising originality, has quickly climbed the Italian charts. A success confirmed in 2022 by the sequel The 9 that kills.

THE BOOK: CHANGING THE BONES (Ed. Giunti)

Turin, 1988. Tito Ferretti is only four years old when he witnesses the murder of his mother and his lover: it is the work of the "monster", the serial killer who is terrorizing the city and who will be captured, after a tight investigation, by the deputy prosecutor Francesco Scalviati. It's been 34 years since then. The memory of those events is far away, but the discovery of a disfigured corpse suddenly seems to reopen the nightmare: it is Tito Ferretti. They massacred him with an ancient bone-breaker, the third victim of a murderer who acts according to a precise, ferocious dynamic. Is there a connection to the monster, and which one? Commissioner Damiano Provera knows that only one person can come to terms with it: Aurora Scalviati, daughter of the magistrate who in the eighties followed the case of the monster, who came into the world on the same night when her father's hands were stained with blood. Able, above all, to see the connections that no one else sees, and make them matter to identify the killer. Aurora immediately realizes that, although they do not seem to have anything in common, the victims have been chosen based on a precise design. And she is attracted by two disturbing clues: inexplicable engravings on Ferretti's bones and a mysterious book on the connections between quantum theory and faith. While trying to decipher the riddle comes another shocking news: Giorgia, a twelve-year-old girl, has just been kidnapped ... It is the beginning of a hallucinatory journey where Aurora will have to reconstruct a perfect and ruthless mechanism, confront the power of the human mind and understand, once again, that the past is the only key to penetrate the present. And the only chance to redeem oneself.

Aurora Scalviati returns in an impetuous thriller, built with surgical precision, surprising until the last page.

Barbara Baraldi

Barbara Baraldi is the author of thrillers and comic book scripts. He publishes for Giunti editore the series "Aurora Scalviati, profiler del buio" which includes the novels Aurora nel buio (2017), Osservatore oscuro (2018) and L'ultima notte di Aurora (2019). His other publications: La stagione dei ragni (Giunti 2021). During his career he has published novels for Mondadori, Castelvecchi, Einaudi and a series of guides to the mysteries of the city of Bologna for Newton & Compton. Between 2014 and 2015 he worked with the Walt Disney Company as a creative consultant. Since 2012 he has been writing for the series "Dylan Dog" by Sergio Bonelli Editore. She is the winner of various literary awards, including the Gran Giallo città di Cattolica and the Nebbia Gialla. He is one of the protagonists of Italian noir, a documentary on the Italian thriller produced by the BBC. His books are welcomed by critics and audiences and are published in various countries, including Germany, England and the United States. Since 2010 she has been teaching lessons and creative writing courses for adults and children in collaboration with first and second grade secondary schools.

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