Flowers Over the Inferno

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An idyllic village in the Alps. A legacy of sin. An evil lurking in the woods.

HOW DO YOU SOLVE A CRIME WHEN YOUR OWN BODY IS REBELLING AGAINST YOU?

Something devastating has taken place here in these mountains. Something that requires all my investigative abilities. 
My name is Teresa Battaglia, I am a police chief inspector and I walk through hell every day. It's not my gun, nor my uniform: my real weapon is my mind. 
Yet my mind is failing me. Not my body, weathered by the passing of time, nor my tormented heart.
My name is Teresa Battaglia, I have a secret that I dare not reveal even to myself, and for the first time in my life I am afraid.


In the village of Travenì, surrounded by the majestic beauty of the Italian Alps, a series of violent assaults take place. 

When the first body is found in the woods, Police inspector Teresa Battaglia quickly realises her decades of experience as a profiler will not be enough to solve what looks like the work of a profoundly deranged mind. Soon more victims are found and when a new-born baby is kidnapped, Teresa's investigation becomes a race against the clock.

But Teresa is also fighting a different kind of battle: against the silent reticence of a community determined to protect a secret legacy of shame; and against her own body, weighed down by age and diabetes, and her mind, once invincible and now slowly gnawing away at her memory...