È successo un guaio

In an unnamed Italian city in a future so close it seems like our present, the private investigation agency Hari Investigazioni is run by the gruff Nadia Malocchi, together with her daughters Jo – a fierce family woman who is “proudly fat” – and Dami – a transgender woman and former police officer. When the mafia returns to threaten the state with thirty-year-old plans and bombs explode and deaths pile up in the city, danger approaches Hari. So the sisters try to convince their brother Kris – isolated and depressed, but always the best at connecting the dots – to return to the agency. Navigating bizarre attacks, personal crises, violent police officers and disaster-stricken neighbourhoods in an edgy “seaside town without a sea”, the Maloccis race against time to save themselves and those they love. And the price to pay could be the most unexpected of truths. Now one of the most important authors on the Italian comic scene, Lorenzo Palloni writes and illustrates È successo un guaio (Something Bad Has Happened), a volume that, somewhere between comedy and neo-noir, inaugurates a highly anticipated series of stories – interconnected but readable individually – suited to the grotesque gloom of our times.