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Rating: Giallo Fiamma - AAVV - Ed.Mondadori 2006
If you find this book at a second-hand stall for 2.00 Euros, pick it up. But not a cent more...otherwise, I'll lend it to you.
It's not a stunning book. It's just a collection of mystery stories by Italian authors with a common theme: love. The first stories are predictable, with plots that are too simple, featuring substitutes for investigations that are too bland. Two stories stand out.
"At Least Two Lives" by Raul Montanari leaves you speechless. The protagonist Roberto is an unfaithful husband who has been seeing a mistress full of sex and perversion for a long time.
Their relationship (sex scene) reaches a point of exasperation (more sex) and degenerates to the idea of killing the wife (and meanwhile he has another quickie).
Yes, but simultaneously there is also sex with the wife, meaning not together with the mistress, alone, yes, alone but with the wife, that is, in the same time period, in the missionary position and silent orgasm (twisted, not the sex, me.....). The murder is well thought out. The husband takes the wife out to dinner and during a walk in the hills considers throwing her off the cliff.
**** ending, if you buy the book, click from elsewhere****
With a feline leap, the mistress jumps out from a bush and attacks the wife. The husband thought he had planned everything by himself, so the gesture is unexpected. During the scuffle, Roberto remains petrified. The wife has the upper hand and the mistress ends up in the ravine. The two spouses go a period of time without speaking. During a medical check-up, it is discovered that the wife has a tumor and dies. The husband, "el gran ciavador," is left without a mistress and without a wife. And at this point, I add "well, damn it all....!!!!"
The other good story is the closing one in the book. It very much recalls the style of Clive Barker's Books of Blood, and I will say no more.
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