Sommer 2011: Während in Libyen Bürgerkrieg herrscht, treffen sich in Rom auf einem Luxusschiff internationale Wirtschaftsbosse zu Geheimverhandlungen über den Mittleren Osten. Am nächsten Tag werden eine junge Hostess, die auf dem Schiff arbeitete, und ihre kleine Tochter ermordet aufgefunden. Commissario Balistreri, desillusionierter Chef der Mordkommission, trifft bei den Ermittlungen bald auf alte Bekannte aus seiner libyschen Kindheit, die er in den letzten Winkel seines Bewusstseins verdammt hatte. Durch die Ermittlungen wird er gezwungen, in das von Bomben zerstörte Libyen zurückzukehren und seinem früheren Ich und einer unerträglichen Wahrheiten ins Auge zu sehen ...
Das Böse vergisst nicht ist das fulminante Finale von Costantinis "Trilogie des Bösen", ein atemloser Abgesang, der alle Facetten von Gut und Böse in einem Reigen von Wahrheit und Lüge durcheinanderwirbelt, bis die Grenzen verschwimmen.
On an island of misfit artists, it's Aunt Emma's turn to play detective.
Though a few years past sixty, Sarah Kelling's Aunt Emma is as vigorous as a girl of twenty-two. She sings, she dances, and when the local fire department needs a fundraising boost, she's happy to jump out a window for charity. This summer, she decamps to Maine, to beat the heat at an island retreat for artists and great thinkers. There are writers, painters, a psychic, and a historian, and their company promises to be great fun - until a few of them go treasure-crazy.
Sensible people have long dismissed rumors of the Pocapuk Island treasure as myth, but artists are seldom sensible. When their rampant digging stirs up buried trouble, it leads to theft, drugging, and a murder. And although Sarah and her husband Max give investigative advice by phone, it's up to Aunt Emma to save the islanders from themselves.
Review quotes.
"As always, MacLeod serves up unalloyed pleasure." - Publishers Weekly.
"A most welcome addition to the MacLeod canon." - Library Journal.
"One of the most gifted mystery authors writing today." - Sojourner Magazine.
Biographical note.
Charlotte MacLeod (1922-2005) was an internationally bestselling author of cozy mysteries. Born in Canada, she moved to Boston as a child, and lived in New England most of her life. After graduating from college, she made a career in advertising, writing copy for the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company before moving on to Boston firm N. H. Miller & Co., where she rose to the rank of vice president. In her spare time, MacLeod wrote short stories, and in 1964 published her first novel, a children's book called "Mystery of the White Knight."
In "Rest You Merry" (1978), MacLeod introduced Professor Peter Shandy, a horticulturist and amateur sleuth whose adventures she would chronicle for two decades. "The Family Vault" (1979) marked the first appearance of her other best-known characters: the husband and wife sleuthing team Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn, whom she followed until her last novel, "The Balloon Man," in 1998.
»Überzeugender Abschluss der Trilogie, rasantes Tempo, ausgeklügelte Plots und eine brisante Story, die überzeugend an der Realität entlang erzählt wird.«
