I pregiudizi di Dio by Luca Poldelmengo
What we refer to as good and evil may only be the preconceived notions of God, and true justice is not of this world.
Chief Commissioner Andrea Valente started having seizures a few months after Alice, the mother of her kid, vanished. He resolves to keep his actual health concerns a secret since he fears that if his colleagues learned, he could wind up stamping on some ministries. Inspector Marco Alfieri, who has a troubled past and a stellar resume, shows up at the police station in the meanwhile. Since the first investigation, which involved a woman’s body recovered in Mandela, the village where she lived, and disfigured by a savage rape, the two have been at odds with one another.
Francesca Ralli, the commissioner of the Rome mobile squad, who will support them in the inquiry, is brought in by the media uproar. The investigators concentrate their efforts on the victim’s husband, an evil and filthy man. But does he also commit murder? To reconcile with their conscience, the three will have to confront their difficult pasts and their flaws. The best course of action isn’t necessary to be a good cop.
I pregiudizi di Dio by Luca Poldelmengo
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The foundation of Luca Poldelmengo’s writings is his deep familiarity with the many techniques of research. He handles the inquiry in this book from the perspectives of three very different individuals, and he pits them all against one another to pose a crucial question regarding the impact of personal perspective on the investigation process. Because it is dependent on the investigator, there is no such thing as an objective perspective while looking into something.
By combining many points of view, Poldelmengo upends the presumptions of each character, compelling them to expose the depths of their own humanity and how their version of events relates to a larger, plainly more complex reality. He is extremely careful and is motivated by a desire to accurately describe every location in his book. His writing is actually very visual. However, readers gain a deeper sense of connection with the locations even though the places he leads us to aren’t instantly recognizable—Mandela, a little commune outside of Rome where the body is recovered, will only be known to those with a very clear grasp of the area. When it comes to describing the setting for his novels, Poldelmengo likely has the tightest grip.
