When a woman is beheaded in a park outside Rome and her six-year-old son goes missing, the police unit assigned to the case arrests the woman's husband and awaits his confession. But the city's Chief of Major Crimes has his doubts and assigns two of Italy's top analytical minds to the case: Deputy Captain Colomba Caselli, a fierce, warrior-like detective still reeling from a horrific mass killing she survived, and Dante Torre, a man who spent his childhood trapped inside a concrete silo. Fed through the gloved hand of a masked kidnapper who called himself "the Father," Dante emerged from his ordeal with crippling claustrophobia but, also, with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge
Delphine Gachet Book order (chronological)


La mer, le matin
- 132 pages
- 5 hours of reading
En Libye la révolte gronde. La guerre éclate. Dans un pays en proie à la violence, en pleine déroute, certains n'ont plus le choix. Il leur faut partir avant d'être tués, comme Omar, le mari de Jamila. La jeune femme part donc avec son petit garçon, Farid, trop jeune pour comprendre la violence des hommes. Farid ne connaît que le désert. La terre de ses ancêtres bédouins. Il n'a jamais vu la mer. Mais Jamila sait que le salut est là, que leur unique chance de survie est d'embarquer sur l'un de ces bateaux qui promettent de les mener en Sicile.