Massimo Carlotto & Marco Videtta

The story concerns a young lawyer who seems to have it all — a promising legal career, an imminent partnership with his esteemed father, and a beautiful, talented fiancee. When his girlfriend is murdered just days away from their wedding, he must navigate the small-town alliances, scandals and dubious histories to clear his name and bring the killer to justice. A bold Euro thriller most notable for its setting — both physical, a once-vital northern Italian industrial town past its prime, and figurative, the upscale squalor made by modern greed.

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