博客來Leonardo Guidi, a municipal clerk in Turin, leads a cynical, unstimulating life. His only ambition is to get through each workday with the least possible effort and avoid any form of human interaction.
His life takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of Chiara Montalto, an enigmatic and fascinating woman who comes to his desk with a peculiar request. Chiara suspects that her husband, Lorenzo Ferraris, is cheating on her with someone who lives at 24 Via San Vincenzo, and she is looking for information about the tenants of that building.
Driven by a curiosity he thought he had buried under years of stamps and paperwork, Leonardo agrees to help her. But what begins as a routine marital drama turns into a nightmare: one evening, during a violent thunderstorm, Lorenzo Ferraris enters that building and vanishes into thin air. No one sees him come out. His phone is silent.
Inspector Giulio Ferretti enters the scene, a police officer who quotes proverbs invented by imaginary relatives and has an infallible nose for lies. Together with Leonardo, unwillingly dragged into the role of amateur investigator, and Irene, his fiery friend and expert in cats and true crime, they begin to pry open the Pandora’s box of an apparently quiet apartment building.
Between a Russian ＂beauty consultant＂ who receives late-night visitors, a couple dragging black bags through the downpour, a dog depressed by feline bereavement, and a neighbor who sees conspiracies everywhere, the truth seems impossible to grasp.
The debut novel by Antonello Marsiglia, Investigation into a Mysteriously Disappeared Man balances between classic mystery and dark comedy, and will keep you completely hooked until the surprising finale - where the solution to the mystery is hidden exactly where no one is looking.
