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The deliverance of evil / Roberto Costantini ; translated from the Italian by N.S. Thompson.

by Costantini, Roberto, 1952-

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World Cup (Soccer) -- Fiction.

Police -- Italy -- Fiction.

Serial murders -- Fiction.

Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Suicide -- Fiction.

Rome (Italy) -- Fiction.

Costantini, Roberto, 1952- Commissario Balistreri mysteries ; 1

Tu sei il male. English English.

Alternate title:

Tu sei il male.

552 p. ; 24 cm.

Original Italian language title: Tu sei il male.

Translated from the Italian.

"Rome, 1982. On the evening of Italy's winning the football World Cup in Spain, an eighteen-year-old female employed by by the Vatican's housing agency disappears into thin air. The investigation is given to a young officer, Michele Balistreri. Headstrong and arrogant, Balistreri takes the case lightly, and it is only when a gruesome discovery is made on the banks of the Tiber that he realizes the terrible cost of his negligence. Rome, 2006. While Italy celebrates its first World Cup triumph in twenty-four years, journalist Linda Nardi is busy investigating a series of brutalities against young women. Although the murders have been pinned on a group of juveniles from the city's immigrant community, Nardi is exploring a more sinister possibility, at the personal request of the head of Rome's Special Foreign Section, Michele Balistreri. Balistreri, despite having risen to one of the highest ranks in the Italian police, is still plagued by the tragedy that marked his early career. Suspecting the recent crimes to be the work of a serial killer, he hopes that stopping this murderer will help to assuage the crippling guilt and regret that he has shouldered for over two decades. For Nardi - a relentless and enigmatic investigative journalist - Balistreri's proposition has presented a golden opportunity. If the nation is being misled as to the true nature of the crimes, she can expose the conspiracy and help to combat the corruption and racism that has become endemic in Italian society. One is fighting to fix the past, the other to fix the present. Yet these battles will prove to be shockingly linked: for the evil Nardi now seeks has marked Balistreri once before, and its malevolent trail goes way higher, and way further back, than either of them dared imagine. "--Publisher.

Winner of the Scerbanenco Prize for the best Italian crime thriller.

Mystery fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Psychological thriller.

Italian fiction -- Translations into English.

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