Kill the Angel

Caselli and Torre, Book 2

By: Sandrone Dazieri

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

From internationally best-selling author Sandrone Dazieri and featuring “two of the most intriguing detectives to have emerged in recent years” (Daily Mail, London) comes the “explosive” (Booklist, starred review) second thriller in the Caselli and Torre series.

In Rome, a passenger train speeds into the city’s main station, its first-class car full of dead bodies, the macabre discovery of which falls to Deputy Police Commissioner Colomba Caselli. The police then receive a claim of responsibility and the threat of more murders to come.

But neither Caselli nor her eccentrically brilliant ally, Dante Torre, are ready to buy the terrorist link. As the two unconventional investigators chip away at what the perpetrator wants everyone to believe, they put their own lives in jeopardy. But Dante’s bizarre and traumatic past enables him to see what others miss, and in this case, to connect with a kindred spirit of sorts, a woman named Giltine who also experienced an intense trauma — one from which she emerged damaged and full of murderous intent. Making her especially lethal is that the rare mental illness she suffers from has her believing she’s already dead.

When Colomba and Dante find themselves on the outs with law enforcement, they’re entirely on their own, faced with the responsibility of making sure the waters of Venice don’t turn red with blood.

©2018 Sandrone Dazieri (P)2018 Simon & Schuster

Waiting on book #3

I hope they let us know when book number three is available. we have to find out what happened to Dante.

Violent, gripping story well told, but I think I’m done with this.

This is another chapter in the tale of two extreme characters trying to fight for justice in contemporary Italy. The woman is a police officer temporarily sidelined, and the man is a brilliant head case with an abused background. I like these characters, but the prose is increasingly violent. I probably would have stuck it out for the third installment - who’s arrival is as yet on scheduled –but for the fact that the author chose to end this book with the most extreme cliffhanger I have ever encountered, and it really pissed me off. I’ll read the book reviews of the next one,but I’m not giving any more money to a guy who abuses his readers this way.