Product Description: It is autumn in Parma. Commissario Soneri decides to escape the greyness of the city to return to his home village in the Appenines for a much-needed holiday. He plans to spend the time hunting for mushrooms in the wooded slopes of Montelupo. The small and isolated village revolves around the fortunes of the Rodolfi family, salami manufacturers for generations. Its patriarch, the gifted businessman Palmiro, runs a tight ship. But behind the scenes, all is not well: his son, Paride, has other plans for his future. And then all of a sudden the family finds itself in the throes of a financial scandal, which has worrying implications for the entire community. Soon afterwards a hiker makes a grisly discovery in the woods: Paride's decomposing body. After initial protestations, Commissario Soneri soon gives up all hope of a peaceful break. As he becomes more deeply involved in the investigation, the complicated relationship he uncovers between father and his son becomes all the more pertinent when he learns that his own father and Palmiro Ridolfi were friends...
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