Review: The Lost Girls Of Rome by Donato Carrisi

One phone call for the ambulance. A man is having heart attack. The team that answers the phone call finds the man in very last moment. There is a tattoo on his chest: "Kill me". The doctor lost her twin sister couple of years earlier, when someone kidnapped her. She was left with her throat cut, with one of her roller skates, red with gold buckles. In the room of that old man, in one corner, there is a a red roller skate with gold buckles, the other half of the pair. The doctor has to choose, to save a life or take a revenge.

Sandra Vega is forensic analyst, a young woman who recently lost her husband. She still grieves, his cologne is still in the bathroom, his cigarettes with the smell of anise are still in the apartment. She refuses to let him go. Until one day she receives a strange phone call from someone who knew her husband. She always thought that her husband's death was accident, but that phone call changed everything, her husband might been murdered.

In the meantime, young women are dissapearing in Rome. Young, beautiful, with families that are looking for them. They are found a month later, throat cut, not violated. Who and why is kidnapping them? And why killing them a month later?

The Whisperer-Donato Carrisi

This is the book that totally freaked me out. I was reading at 2.00 AM and  went to check if my front door was locked.

Six arms. Buried in the meadow. The arms belong to six little girls.Are the girls dead or alive? Where are the missing girls?
The criminologist Goran Gavila works on the case. Another member of the team is Mila Vasquez . Both, usually work alone. But now, they have to work as a team.
Goran Gavila has skeletons in the closet. He is a single parent to a boy since his wife left. He cannot understand why she left her own son.
Mila Vasquez has skeletons on her own. She was kidnapped as a child. She knows exactly what the missing girls are going through.
Five bodies are discovered, one after another. But there is no sixth body. Where is the sixth missing girl?
In the prison there is a new prisoner. He cleans after him so well, so there is no his DNA at all. No one knows who he is. No name, no fingerprints, no DNA. Nothing. His profile is sent to Goran Davila.

I loved this book. It turned me upside-down. There were so many twists, I couldn't put it down all night. Finished for one night (almost 600 pages). There were creepy moment that freaked me out (Is my front door locked?). There is very good psychological background in this story.

My opinion : 5 / 5