My Mother-in-Law Drinks

Synopsis of My Mother-in-Law Drinks

«My Mother-in-Law Drinks» is the dark-humor satire novel by Diego De Silva, published by Europa Editions in hardcover (368 pages, in English).

A computer engineer kidnaps the head of the Neapolitan mafia he holds responsible for his son's accidental death and stages an improvised trial on live television, turned into a tragicomic reality show. The only hope of resolving the standoff without more victims is Vincenzo Malinconico, a middle-aged Neapolitan lawyer, as charismatic as he is indecisive, who must rise to the occasion. All narrated with irony and with the portrait of a digital-age society as a backdrop.

This is the second novel in the series featuring Vincenzo Malinconico, after «I Hadn't Understood». Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.

Recommended for readers of crime fiction with humor, social satire and charismatic, flawed lawyer protagonists.