The monastery of the crimes
I found it very nice one! You all should read this out!
Genre: Thriller
Plot:
Jeremia Solaris is at a loss: once a scholar and brilliant man, after disillusionment and failure, at the age of fifty he finds himself without money, ambitions and interest in his work, and with a bottle of Chianti for friend. But his life will change radically when he receives a disturbing e-mail from a former professor. In the appendix there is a mysterious manuscript, which the elderly teacher asks Jeremiah to decrypt. Jeremiah, caught up in the torpor and conquered by curiosity, put himself to work, finding himself entangled in a mechanism that he cannot fully understand. And when in a second, sibillino message the professor asks him to see him, he has the dramatic confirmation of having entered a labyrinth of dangers from which it is difficult to get out: a thin thread unfolds and reconnects medieval Florence to that of our times, and the horrible deaths of centuries ago seem to align with the crimes that terrorized the city and its countryside in the 1980s. Will Solaris succeed, following the bloodthirsty rivulet that crosses time and history, in surviving Evil?
Reviewed:
The Monastery of Crimes is an exciting thriller.
With a brilliant, flowing and very communicative writing, the author weaves a plot that is divided into two different times: nowadays and in the past seven hundred years back.
Glue between yesterday and today are bloody yet mysterious crimes involving young women. Repeatedly repeated and hidden over the centuries, Claudio Aita with his creativity connects them to the crimes of the Monster of Florence, giving his novel a touch of truth, a mixture of reality and fiction that increases tension and helps the reader to get deeper into the story.
The main character of today's events is very complex, well structured in a destructured and self-destructive personality. Focused on himself, disillusioned with the life he leads, obsessed and suffering from his wife's loss, he is a hero who departs from the classic canons, recalcitrant to bow to a role that others have designated for him.
In antithesis, he is the protagonist of past events. A Franciscan friar who would like to act, but cannot be overwhelmed by the power of adverse forces, who finds himself acting as a witness and narrator of the events he has witnessed.
The narrative rhythm is tight, but nothing detracts from the writer's descriptive ability, which transports us to Florence, the beautiful city of the arts, which hides so much darkness and wickedness, standing as the central pole of a conspiracy of evil that involves personalities belonging to the classes most in view of society, able to control politics, police and information.
A well-designed thriller that will make you shiver, an interpretation of frightening reality, with a final not at all obvious. Don't miss it!
(Tatiana Vanini)