Stella di mare

Everyone in Sant’Elia, a working-class neighbourhood of Cagliari overlooking the sea, knows Stella, desires her and envies her: because she is beautiful, shameless. Special. But one mistral-wind day, she is found dead on a beach, her face scarred as if to erase her legendary beauty. For Deputy Commissioner Vito Strega and his two inspectors, this is a difficult investigation, in which the leads and suspects multiply. To find the culprit, they will have to delve into the secrets of a neighbourhood that is impenetrable to the police, coming to terms with the ghosts of the locals, but also with their own, which they hoped they had buried forever. In this noir novel, in which the characters, through their chiaroscuro, come to life as in an ancient tragedy, Piergiorgio Pulixi investigates the most controversial sense of justice and questions the sins of the fathers.