Kill the Father: A Novel (1) (Caselli and Torre Series)

About this book

In this fascinatingly complex thrillera 2017 WHSmith Richard and Judy picktwo people each shattered by their past team up to solve a series of killings and abductionsa ruthlessly planned escalation that turns out to be merely the surface of something far more sinister. 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 sees an easy solution: they arrest the womans husband and await his confession. But the chief of Romes major crimes unit doubts things are so simple. Secretly he lures to the case two of Italys top analytical minds: Deputy Captain Colomba Caselli a fierce warrior-like detective still reeling from having survived a bloody catastrophe and Dante Torre a man who spent his childhood trapped inside a concrete silo. Fed by 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 and hyperobservant capacities. All evidence suggests that the Father is back and active after being dormant for decades. Indeed he has left telltale signs that signal hes looking forward to a reunion with Dante. But when Colomba and Dante begin following the ever-more-bizarre trail of clues they grasp that whats really going on is darker than they ever imagined.