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Rocco Schiavone, increasingly brooding and melancholy, is forced to investigate under the glow of Christmas lights. A bank robbery and a body found in a small mountain lake\u2014amid disguises, chemical formulas, twists and turns, and unexpected connections\u2014put the deputy police chief of Aosta to the test. He will get to the bottom of it, though with a few more quick\u2014and not entirely regular\u2014moves than usual.\nAosta is in a frenzy of Christmas preparations. Jingles on every street corner, shady types hiding beneath Santa beards, the usual sugary overload that Rocco would list among life\u2019s greatest nuisances\u2014if not at the very top. And on top of everything, it\u2019s bitterly cold. He still has no idea what awaits him. The regret of a possible love\u2014of a story that might have been and is now just another entry on the long list of remorse\u2014weighs heavily on him, while the emptiness left by the ghost of Marina, who no longer appears to him, becomes harder and harder to bear. Into this melancholy that feeds his gloom comes the case of a bank robbery. A seemingly meagre haul and a carousel of hostages that turns out to be a ruse\u2014one robbery inside another. Complicated business, though apparently separate from the discovery of a corpse in a mountain lake. Who is this man? At first, he is suspected to be an important missing chemist. What follows, instead, is a far more intricate affair. Big Pharma, sports, business, organized crime\u2014an unexpected web of paths and connections that the unwilling Rocco is forced to navigate.\nHelping him in this new investigation\u2014one that requires a few more nimble, irregular moves\u2014are his old friends Brizio and Furio; and playing a larger role than usual are the brains of the police force: Michela Gambino, head of forensics, and the pathologist Alberto Fumagalli. This time, they must break through well-sealed doors, decipher hidden formulas, and uncover concealed identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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