Fiction
March 2022
THE FACES OF THE APOCALYPSE
by GIOVANNI MAGISTRELLI
The life of Inspector Rigoberta "Ribe" Daverio is shocked when her mother Anna is killed during an attempted robbery gone wrong. Three years later, Ribe is no longer a member of the Police and makes a living as a private eye in Milan. Commissioner Stefano Sanna, then her superior and now her occasional lover, asks her to investigate in an unofficial way on a murder happened in the surroundings of the city: an esteemed psychologist was found dead with a message left on his naked and torn body, a passage taken from the Book of Revelation of the apostle John. Starting from this clue, Ribe Daverio will enter step by step into a reality where evil is a palpable presence, composed of different shades that swirl around a single word: Apocalypse.
