{:en}PRESS RELEASE (7/08/2017)
Continued at Loano the review of meetings with the author Culture Tuesdays organized by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano in collaboration with Event Size e Mondadori Bookstore Loano.
Tuesday, August 8, to the 6 p.m., host of the’Summer Arena Prince's Garden will be the writer Alexander Defilippi who will present his latest novel “Women in black lipstick” (Einaudi 2017).
From Turin, Italy, a psychoanalyst doctor, Alessandro Defilippi in this new novel weaves the yellow and noir threads. Colonel Anglesio, a fascinating and unquestioned character from his previous novel “Comes the Death He Does Not Respect,” returns as the protagonist.
Here we find him grappling with a series of strange deaths: four women, Gemma, Marisa, Carla, Agnese, to which is also added that of a man, a former camallo, Gerolamo Raimondi, known as Giomìn.
In Genoa in the early 1950s, a port of licit and illicit trafficking, cruelty explodes following the most circuitous routes. It is up to Carabinieri Colonel Enrico Anglesio to navigate the labyrinth of criminal interests and the dark rooms of the human mind.
Three young women are found lifeless. Each time the coroner's report mentions cardiac arrest, yet something does not add up: all have heavily made-up faces and show ligature marks on their wrists. Anglesio becomes more involved in the affair than he ever imagined, and begins to investigate the case frantically, almost as if it were a personal matter, to the point of compromising his own private and emotional life. And gradually, with difficulty, a miserable and perverse reality emerges before his eyes, leading him to push the boundaries of the law.
Alessandro Defilippi is the author of novels and short stories, including: A long habit (Sellerio 1994), Locus animae (Passigli 1999, Mondadori 2007), One small thing is always missing (Einaudi 2010), Red Danube (Mondadori 2011), Patient No. 9, Comes the death that does not respect (Einaudi, 2015), the short story For one Tropea onion (Mondadori 2012) and Women in black lipstick (Einaudi, 2017). He participated in the screenplay of the film Take my soul (2003) by Roberto Faenza.
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