Malocchio: The Evil Eye Murders

It is a fact that most people of Italian-American decent know of the mystical belief of the "Malocchio." This is also known in the English language as the "Evil Eye." Therefore, this kind of belief is not necessarily centered in the Italian or Italian American community, but rather, encompasses people from all walks of life and from different places, religious faiths, races and colors.

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John Volpe is a slayer, a stalker, a man with a mission. He is a man with a vengeance. A person ready to pay his debt. This man believes in superstition, he feels the terror inside his heart. Journey back in time to the point, and reason for his very first killing. Feel his fear, his pain his unadulterated anger that even today will make you feel the horror, the sweat, and the anxiety.
This type of horror can take you from the past, through the present, to the future, from one century to the next; from one nationality and religion to another; this is a totally different aspect of fear; because in some nationalities, in some societies, superstition and fear have no measure of time.

This superstition, this belief, this fear; is called the MALOCCHIO to the Italian and the Italian American society. The EVIL EYE in the American society.

Travel through the days, the months and the years with Lieutenant Anthony Lupo an Italian American himself, as he methodically tracks every clue to find out the reasoning if any to the series of murders that has a town and its people scared and confused.

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First time authors, Michael Chiaradonna and James T. Vance, boomers who have been friends since high school, co-authored the mystery Malocchio, a novella about deep-seated belief, blind faith, and murder.

Both reside in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA where Jim, like a true baby-boomer, is aggressively downsizing as he enthusiastically envisions life in a 55-and-over community. Meanwhile, Mike, destined to working beyond the grave, teaches college while moonlighting as the family dog-whisperer.