Benacquista has quickly become a new icon for fans of French detective stories who value the combination of a mysterious plot, a sharply tense psychological atmosphere, and subtle humor.
Take a young Italian living in Paris, give him a friend killed under mysterious circumstances, heat up the situation with an unexpected inheritance, bring it to a boil under the Italian sun, season with American gangsters, secrets of the Vatican, Catholic miracles, thousands of frantic pilgrims, a couple of shots from a hired killer, a jealous husband, a dissolute wife, and memories of the war that’s just passed… and you’ll get an unforgettable dish…