Delitto di benvenuto. Un’indagine di Scipione Macchiavelli

From the Rome of the ‘dolce vita’ to the quiet Sicilian countryside of the 1960s – a move that Inspector Scipione Macchiavelli would gladly have avoided. But the transfer was imposed from above, and he knows full well why. It’s a pity he doesn’t even have time to settle in: he immediately finds himself dealing with a complex case that puts him to the test as never before. With Delitto di benvenuto, Cristina Cassar Scalia introduces us to a new, irresistible character. December 1964. Scipione Macchiavelli, a young public security officer, is transferred from the ‘Via Veneto’ police station in Rome to Noto, in Sicily. Awaiting him, alongside an environment that is, to say the least, unfamiliar to him, is an investigation far more complex than any he’s been used to. In the capital, he’d dealt with relatively straightforward cases; but no sooner has he arrived in the far south of the peninsula than he’s thrown into investigating the mysterious disappearance of a local dignitary. Fortunately, he can count on a team of excellent officers, such as Marshal Calogero Catalano and Brigadier Francesco Mantuso. And on the intuition of a charming chemist, Giulia Marineo, who gathers gossip from the whole town and to whom Scipione is drawn from the very first moment.