Книги, похожие на «Stefano Vignaroli, The Shadow Of The Bell Tower»

An intense story that starts along the warm beaches of Spain’s Costa Daurada. This is young Alberto’s departing point, as he tries to alter his destiny. He arrives in majestic Barcelona and slowly, but determinedly, realizes that he has a unique quality that will place him in a short time at the center of a tragic story of serial murders. His ability to render the sound of voice heard into a face so real that it looks like a photograph quickly places him in a tangle of amorous emotions and epic acts. An intense story that starts along the warm beaches of Spain’s Costa Daurada. This is young Alberto’s departing point, as he tries to alter his destiny. He arrives in majestic Barcelona and slowly, but determinedly, realizes that he has a unique quality that will place him in a short time at the center of a tragic story of serial murders. His ability to render the sound of voice heard into a face so real that it looks like a photograph quickly places him in a tangle of amorous emotions and epic acts. New friends and an unexpected love escort him along the streets of warm Barcelona, as he tries to solve an enigma that becomes more and more complicated as time goes by. The search for a missing person and the mandatory race against time transform shy Alberto into a man aware of his unique gift, able to develop an action plan worthy of a full-fledged detective. A recurring intertwining of scenarios, places and characters keep the reader involved in the story until the story’s unforeseen conclusion.

Sudden disappearances worry inhabitants of Trioria, a little town in the Ligurian inland. Caterina Ruggeri, police chief, will have to shed light on the mysterious crimes by going back up to four centuries before: the murder of a witch seems to be hiding the causes of an esoteric vendetta.After being for several years responsible for the Dogs' Unit of the State Police, Caterina Ruggeri, Law graduate, is appointed Police Chief and assigned to the Police District in Imperia. The newly appointed Police Chief, having just arrived at her new working place, will find herself involved in a thorny investigation, during which she'll have to face people linked to an esoteric sect, in a town, that is witches' place par excellence: Triora. Starting from the finding of a burnt woman's body, at the end of the operations of extinguishing a wood fire, Doctor Ruggeri, helped by her vice, Inspector Giampieri, an ex soldier expert in informations technology and sport cars' driver, will have to extend her investigation to occurrences that had happened in those places in far away times. Important protagonist of the adventure is Doctor Ruggeri's dog, Furia, her loyal Springer Spaniel, matchless trail searcher, that in more than in one occasion will be of precious help.

The book is set in the period of the return of the pharaoh from emigration to Egypt and the power of Rome to restore him to the throne. A year after the return of the pharaoh to Alexandria, Ptolemy begins preparing his daughter for reign over Egypt. For impoverished Egypt during the period of suppression of the conspiracy to overthrow Ptolemy XII, the pharaoh decides to initiate his daughter into the secrets of the treasury of Egypt, which is under the care of the high priest of the Temple of…