The Step of the Shadows

Amanda Longo is beautiful, cultured, refined and dangerous. She has two degrees and a passion for the gaming tables. In front of the green cloth she is an ace. She is the daughter of Tony Jack, whom Inspector Brando saw killed a quarter of a century earlier when he was on duty in Rome. A window seems to open on an unsolved past, foreshadowing a complex case bordering on a puzzle. Why did Amanda move to Salento? Is robbing casinos the only thrill she seeks? Or does she want...
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Amanda Longo is beautiful, cultured, refined and dangerous. She has two degrees and a passion for the gaming tables. In front of the green cloth she is an ace. She is the daughter of Tony Jack, whom Inspector Brando saw killed a quarter of a century earlier when he was on duty in Rome. A window seems to open on an unsolved past, foreshadowing a complex case bordering on a puzzle.
Why did Amanda move to Salento? Is robbing casinos the only thrill she seeks? Or does she want revenge on the man who gave the order to kill her father? While Brando investigates a stranger, the victim of a hit-and-run driver, renamed Trampoliere, another case upsets the local community: the presumed suicide of Marta De Vincenti. Her father portrays her as a model student, a young woman seemingly without shadows. The autopsy reveals a different story.
What links Amanda Longo, the Stilt walker and Marta De Vincenti? Brando has the task and the obsession to shed light on a series of apparently inexplicable murders. He digs beneath the hypocritical veneer of the conventions of a society anchored in archaic customs. With his faithful friend Nico Boscolo, a former colleague, mentor, and lost-time investigator, he explores the dark soul behind the age-old violence of a land scorched by the sun and petrified by the heat. Evil is not only a shadow of the past that precedes us at every step but also the indifference to the injustice of an anesthetized society that relegates the undesirable to the slums.