Darker than midnight

In the mid-1980s, Nino Giaconia joined one of Italy's most notorious Mafia families: the Corleones. Along with his brother-in-law Gaspare, who soon became the boss, he gained a reputation as a ruthless and unscrupulous killer, entirely dedicated to the interests of the Cosa Nostra. What sets him apart from the others in the organization is that, for him, his wife comes first. Or was. Beautiful and distressed, Rosa decided to marry Nino to escape the home of her harsh and rude father. What she didn't imagine was that such a choice would turn her life into hell and that, over time, she would fall into depression, eventually descending into madness. Salvo Sottile's Darker Than Midnight is a book of blood, love, and death, to which the author's careful and sharp pen imbues a cinematic rhythm, with thrilling sequences that follow one another in unpredictable suspense. A mafia story that doesn't yield to the rhetoric or stereotypes of the genre and creates a vibrant picture of rare dramatic power.