In Cristina Cassar Scalia’s new novel, Il Castagno dei cento cavalli (Einaudi), the body of a brutally murdered woman is found at the foot of a centuries-old tree growing on the slopes of Etna. For Vanina the investigation is immediately complex, and never as in this case you need the help of retired commissioner Biagio Patanè. Meanwhile, the personal and professional events left pending in Palermo recall as always the policewoman in her hometown, and this time also in another of the «places of the soul» related to her childhood.
In dialogue with Elvira Terranova, adnkronos.
