Between Islands and the Abyss

Two novels steeped in mystery and memory, where the landscape becomes a protagonist and a mirror of the human soul. In L’isola degli inganni (Mondadori), Maria Elisa Aloisi leads the reader to Filicudi, a wild pearl of the Aeolian Islands suspended between legends, shipwrecks, and secrets. In Virginia Spanò’s Profumi e graffi (Perrone Editore), the first investigation of Inspector Greco, the young detective of Sicilian descent confronts a trail of murders in the Sibillini Mountains, while his past resurfaces through nightmares and unhealed wounds. Two distinct stories united by the same narrative tension: the fine line between reality and myth, between external evil and inner depths, with Sicily ever-present as a profound echo of identity and memory.