L’ultimo pinguino delle Langhe

‘Even special Mondays, those capable of changing the course of an entire existence, begin like any other day.’ The powerful Swiss broker Rufus Blom is about to learn this to his cost, when during his usual dawn run through the hills of the Langhe he comes across the corpse of a girl. On her back the murderer has traced in blood a swastika and a surname, his own: Blom. There are few traces around and a lot of problems for the commissioner Gualtiero Bova, whom everyone calls the Penguin, recently transferred to Mondovì: in a place where normally everyone knows everything about everyone, no one seems to have any idea who the girl is, let alone why she was used as a threatening message to Blom, who chose Piedmont to marry his beautiful fiancée Rose Bellamy. The Penguin’s was a punitive transfer, an exile disguised as a promotion, but he is not the type to lose heart. Accompanied by his faithful basset hound Gilda and the tobacco from his pipe, he must find out who the victim is and what is the link that unites her to the Blom family, on whom there seems to be more than one secret.