A Village Tale Series

A Small Village – A Tragic Death – Amateur Sleuths

Marinella is liked by most of the townsfolk; notably by Archetti – “the village idiot”. She is a young woman with a kind heart – ready to help her friends and neighbors; but she is also a prostitute, even if discreet about her trade and respectful of others.

One day, the Carabinieri show up at the...

A Ghastly Crime – Decades Later, Revenge

A nun is violated. Twelve years later, a young Roma girl is also raped.

Both violations result in pregnancies. The nun, twin boys; the young girl, a boy – Manfri. The villain in both cases is the same man – a priest, Vittorio Alonso Orsini, years later to be appointed Archbishop of Milan.

The Orsini are a...

Crime – Murder – Guilt – Redemption

Colonel Emilio Gariboldi is a complex man. He is also a veteran of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

An idealist as a young man, he had hoped to emulate his hero Italo Balbo and hence joined the Italian air force.

A fatal encounter with an enemy intruder while camped with his air force unit on the heights of an...