Tu sei il male

Synopsis of Tu sei il male

«Tu sei il male» is a crime novel by Roberto Costantini, published by Marsilio in hardcover (669 pages, in Italian).

Rome, 1982: Elisa Sordi, a young Vatican employee, disappears. Commissioner Michele Balistreri investigates the case without success, and the crime remains unsolved. Twenty-four years later, the suicide of Elisa's mother leads him to reopen the investigation and unearth a truth hidden behind years of lies.

First installment of the Trilogia del Male, published in 2011 and winner of the Premio Scerbanenco.

For readers of thrillers and crime fiction looking for a police story set in Rome with a tormented protagonist.