Nadia Dalbuono Books

Detective Leone Scamarcio, the son of a former leading mafioso, has turned his back on the family business, and has joined the Rome police force. He may be one of the last honest men in Italy. But when Scamarcio is handed a file of extremely compromising photographs of a high-profile Italian politician, and told to 'deal with it', he knows he's in for trouble. And when a young man is found stabbed to death in Rome, and a young American girl disappears on a beach in Elba, Scamarcio's job gets a whole lot more complicated. Worst of all, every lead seems to implicate the prime minister -- a multi-media baron, and the most powerful man in Italy. As the case spins out of control, and his own past catches up with him, Scamarcio must navigate the darkest currents of Italian society -- only to find that nothing is as it seems, and that the price of truth may be higher than he can pay.

Detective Leone Scamarcio is called to an apparent suicide on the Ponte Sant'Angelo, a stone's throw from the Vatican. A man is hanging from the bridge, his expensive suit suggesting yet another businessman fallen on hard times. But Scamarcio is immediately troubled by similarities with the 1982 murder of Roberto Calvi, 'God's Banker'.

The fourth Leone Scamarcio thriller by CWA-longlisted rising star Nadia Dalbuono. When Leone Scamarcio investigates the murder of a boy with demonic possession, who will win: Scamarcio or the Devil? When Detective Leone Scamarcio is called to investigate the death of a young man in Rome, he soon finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy involving occult practices, murder, church and government corruption, pharmaceutical dirty dealings, family secrets, and, of course, his old friends, the Mafia. As he circles closer to the truth, the danger mounts, and when his family comes under threat, Leone Scamarcio will have to decide once and for all what he really stands for.

The investigation of a hit-and-run in Rome leads Detective Leone Scamarcio on a deadly journey to confront his Mafia past. When Leone Scamarcio is called to investigate an apparent hit-and-run, it seems like a job for a traffic officer, not one of Rome's top detectives. But when the victims are kidnapped on their way to the hospital, and Scamarcio discovers that they are the family of one of the country's top television executives, the infamous Micky Proietti, things start to get interesting. Everyone, it seems -- from Premier League footballers to jilted starlets and even the Calabrian Mafia -- has an axe to grind with Proietti. As Scamarcio delves into the underbelly of Italian show business, he discovers a possible connection between this investigation and his own Mafia father's right-hand man. To solve the case he must travel home to Calabria, but can he finally banish the ghosts of the past?

When a group of terrorists carry out a series of attacks in Rome, Detective Leone Scamarcio gets an unexpected call the men, who appear to be Islamic extremists, say they will only negotiate with him