Gino Vignali
Come la grandine (Like a Hailstorm)
A novel, Solferino, November 2020, 224 pages

A fun and moving adventure between modern criminals and ancient treasures.

The morning after the great international party at the Grand Hotel that opens the celebrations for the centenary of Federico Fellini’s birth, a famous producer is found dead in his suite, under more than equivocal circumstances. Called to investigate, the beautiful deputy commissioner Costanza Confalonieri Bonnet together with her team discovers the murderer in less than forty-eight hours, also thanks to the help of a former love interest who emerges from the past. But in the meantime, Rimini is shocked by a sequence of fatal accidents, too strange to be just accidents: the explosion of a boat, a strange overdose, a road murder. And what does Julius Caesar have to do with all this? After many twists, the honeymoon of Emerson Leichen Palmer Balducci and Cecilia Cortellesi will prove crucial for the investigation. While Costanza, in danger of life and on the edge of a difficult choice, meets none other than her father.

The fourth book in the mystery series by Gino Vignali is the surprising, hilarious and tender ending of an irresistible saga.

Gino Vignali

Gino Vignali was born in Milan. His name has been linked to that of Michele Mozzati for a long time, a partnership that was born during the university years and that made them famous as Gino & Michele. Together they have achieved great success in different fields: publishing, journalism, and entertainment (theatre, cinema and television) and they have published many books of fiction and non-fiction, including Anche le formiche nel loro piccolo s’incazzano (1991), Neppure un rigo di cronaca (2000) e Le cicale (2004-2010). They are curators of the Enciclopedia universale della battuta (2009). He is the author of La chiave di tutto (2018), Ci vuole orecchio (2019), La notte rosa (2019) Come la grandine (2020), and I milanesi si innamorano il sabato (2022). One of his short stories is featured in the collection Giallo al cabaret (2019).

 

 

 

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