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The Silence of Pantelleria
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 20 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
There is a moment, just before dawn, when the city changes its breathing. When you catch it, you understand it well. Sara knew that moment. She sought it out, some mornings. Because it was the only time she managed not to think.
Then a scream shatters the night, and everything changes.
A New York detective, Sara is haunted by a case left unsolved for months. Rose Miller, eighteen years old, killed in a park with a brutality that leaves no escape. No culprit. No leads. Only a promise made to a mother: I will find him.
Forced to take two weeks off, she agrees to accompany her mother to Pantelleria - the Sicilian island where the wind smells of salt and time flows slowly. But the silence is shattered in the night. A scream. A body among the boats in the harbor. Another girl, killed.
Sara doesn't want to stand by and watch. It's not her case. It's not her jurisdiction. Yet a mother's love is the same, wherever you go. And the truth - in New York as in Pantelleria - only exists for those willing to seek it to the very end.
The Silence of Pantelleria is a mystery that doesn't speak only of murder. It speaks of what goes unsaid. Of the courage to stop. Of a friendship that asks for nothing in return. Of an island that, in its silence, holds far more than anyone could imagine.
For lovers of Mediterranean noir, for those who cherished Camilleri and aren't afraid to cross the ocean. For anyone seeking a story that stays with you long after the last page.
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