Daughter of Ashes

Informationen zum Autor Ilaria Tuti; translated by Ekin Oklap Klappentext "Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a trailblazing criminal detective on the Italian police force, is on sick leave, recovering from her recent brush with death in pursuit of a killer. But none of her colleagues-not even her partner, Inspector Marini-know that her Alzheimer's is getting worse, and that Teresa is unsure she will ever return to work. Teresa's plans for retirement are shelved, however, when she is urgently summoned to meet with serial killer Giacomo Mainardi. Refusing to speak with anyone but Teresa, whose investigative work twenty-seven years prior landed him in maximum security prison, Mainardi has disconcerting news: somebody is after him, and only Teresa holds the key to keeping everyone, including herself, safe. To solve the case, Teresa must come face to face with a past she thought she'd buried, back to when Giacomo first began to kill, and Teresa-newly pregnant and married to an abusive man-did everything she could to catch him"-- Leseprobe Prologue Twenty-seven years ago At the end of everything   She wasn’t much older than thirty and she felt like she had turned to dust. What could she make out of dust? A second life, but she would have to knead it with blood and tears, and the sweat of a creature clinging to the edge of an abyss.      When she lay down on the bed for another round of the treatment that was supposed to relieve her pain and rebuild what had shattered inside of her, Teresa had initially dreaded the feel of a stranger’s hands on her body, but realized she found it soothing. The doctor’s practiced touch took her back to her childhood, to the cradle, as if her whimpers might be the cries of an infant.     “We die and we are reborn many times over the course of a single existence, Teresa. This has already happened. It will happen again, and it will hurt, but look at who you’ve become .”      Teresa shifted her gaze from the ceiling to the woman’s face. She felt like an empty vessel, incapable of welcoming anything at all.      The doctor leaned over the bed where that arid emptiness lay.      Every word that came out of the doctor’s mouth was molded by the inflections of her mother tongue, nestled in the space between her palate and her teeth, and curled across the back of the f.ng huang phoenix embroidered on her robe of red silk. Red like the fruit of the strawberry tree whose color blazed through misty winters in Teresa’s grandparents’ garden.      “Everyone is talking about what you managed to do.”      It was disturbingly easy to wind your memories back, when all seemed lost. The end was a tilted plane where everything slipped back to the point of origin. Teresa was falling slowly into a black hole.      The ritual incense sticks released plumes of twisting smoke. In the background, bamboo flutes mimicked whispering winds from faraway lands.      The doctor inserted a second needle into Teresa’s skin.      “This energy point is called Da Ling , meaning ‘great hill.’ It represents burial mounds . . .”      Teresa closed her eyes, her body a living grave.      “But every tomb carries a secret; that is why Da Ling is known by other names, too. To reveal, and to restore.” Another needle into the skin. “ Gui Xin , ghost of the heart. Zhu Xin , governor of the heart. It is the past and your guilt that you must bury, Teresa, not your talent.”      Teresa parted her lips. Even talking was painful. Her jaw, pierced with screws from her operation, was still in a brace.       “I’m d-d-dust,” she managed.      Anyone could have blown on her and swept her away. A man she had once loved had flung her bones across a black altar. Teresa could feel them now spinning, swirling in the breath of life, as if reassembling the skeleton upon which a new beginning might rest. They crac...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ekin Oklap, Ilaria Tuti
• Editore: Soho Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 05.12.2023
• EAN: 9781641294171
• ISBN: 978-1-64129-417-1
• Pagine: 432
• Dimensioni: 148 mm x 217 mm x 34 mm
• Serie: A Teresa Battaglia Novel
• Categoria: Narrativa > Gialli