Iron Canuck Reviews & More: Blitz: Cold Hands by Daniela Alibrandi with an excerpt and a giveaway

COLD HANDS

by Daniela Alibrandi

GENRE: Noir Thriller/MultiDimension Crime

BLURB:

In Rome, the past never stays buried for long. When a dangerous man, Cold Hands, is released from psychiatric detention and quietly returns to the city, Commissioner Rosco and his team are drawn into a shadowy investigation where old crimes, hidden grudges, and new threats begin to intertwine. Beneath the surface of ordinary lives, secrets fester in hospital wards, along the Tiber, and in the darkest corners of the capital. Seemingly unrelated crimes gradually intertwine within a hypnotic, subterranean world of hidden Rome, mysterious lakes and ancient legends, revealing a larger pattern that is difficult to recognize. As tensions rise, Rosco must protect the fragile happiness he has finally found while facing a menace that knows how to wait, watch, and strike. Atmospheric, gripping, and rich in psychological tension, Cold Hands is a suspense novel set in a Rome of buried memories and lurking danger.

Who will read the novel will discover the unbelievable seductive settings, on the shores of Rome’s underground lakes, in which a disturbed mind stalks its prey. They will enjoy this important step in the overall journey of the work, which intertwines serial crimes with murders of a different nature, even with the ancient legends that abound in the Eternal City.

Through the MultiDimensionCrime approach, the novel invites readers to enter a world where atmosphere, emotions, and events become almost tangible, entering the mind of the killer, the desperation of the victims, while investigating with the squad in increasing twists and suspense. The novel, set in the Eighties, is also published as an Extended Book, an innovative publishing format experienced by Morellini Editore, that enhances the reading experience. By scanning the QR code printed on the back cover, readers can explore the locations featured in the story, immerse themselves in its atmospheric world, and listen to a curated soundtrack of 1980s music that brings the novel’s setting to life. A journey that doesn’t end with the last page!

EXCERPT:

Right now, Mara Infanti was bitterly regretting having contacted the man before her. She would have been a hundred times better off sending the henchmen Luigi had always used. What had driven her to face him alone, at that hour, in a place like this?

This guy wasn’t fazed by threats, nor did he show her the slightest respect. He called her a “filthy whore” and, with menacing words, forced her to back up until she was pressed against the bridge’s pillars. From there, she was hidden from the view of anyone crossing to the other side of the Lungotevere, and even from the rare joggers making their way along the riverbanks at this hour. Evening was falling fast, and she couldn’t even count on the comings and goings of relatives visiting patients at the Fatebenefratelli Hospital. She glanced around one more time, hoping Brother Claudio might have doubled back, but he was surely busy bringing comfort to the sick by now.

And this man wasn’t listening to reason. Now he’d grabbed her by the arm. Suddenly, nothing seemed more important than staying alive—even if that meant going back to the streets, letting herself be used by anyone who could pay.

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Daniela Alibrandi is the author of successful thrillers and noirs in Italy and abroad. She was born in Rome, and lived and studied in the United States. In her professional life, she has been involved in cultural exchanges within the Council of Europe and the European Union. With her seventeen published novels, a Trilogy, an Anthology of short stories and seven English editions she is a prominent figure in the Italian literary scene. Her writings have often been featured in national newspapers and literary columns on RAI Italian television and radio broadcasts. The author, always present with her novels in the most important national bookfairs, has also won several national literary awards and the 2022 Women Art Week Award for her literary career. Some of her Italian editions are present in Harvard and Yale libraries as well as in New York Public Library.

For years and from various sources, such as literary critics and reviewers, this author’s style has been defined as multidimensional, until it was officialized as MultiDimensionCrime (Acronym MDCrime). A reading experience that forges imagination in a multi-dimensional way. In the complex and intertwined plots of her novels, which lead to sudden and unexpected twists, the characteristics of different strands are harmoniously blended. The reader follows the investigation to solve a murder and at the same time he amazingly enters the mind of the killer, reasoning alongside him, preparing the crime with him, and even partaking in the victims’ despair and terror. All in a growing suspense, both during the narration and in the final pages, when the reader often has to question all the beliefs he has developed during the reading. The settings the author chooses as well as the atmospheres are always amazing and palpable.

Links:

English website https://danielaenglishwebsite.wordpress.com/

Italian website https://danielaalibrandi.com/

Facebook Author Page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100056951476831

Twitter https://x.com/danielaalibrand

Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielaalibrandi/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/danielaalibrandi/

https://www.youtube.com/user/DanielaAlibrandi

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cold-hands-murders-romes-underground-ebook/dp/B0H6GPXC4M/ref=sr_1_1

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GIVEAWAY

Daniela Alibrandi will be awarding a $15 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner.