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The Lost Girls of Rome
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The Lost Girls of Rome
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The Lost Girls of Rome

Written by Donato Carrisi

Narrated by David Doersch

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Sandra Vega, a forensic analyst with the Roman police department, mourns deeply for a marriage that ended too soon. A few months ago, in the dead of night, her husband, an up-and-coming journalist, plunged to his death at the top of a high-rise construction site. The police ruled it an accident. Sanda is convinced it was anything but. Launching her own inquiries, Sanda finds herself on a dangerous trail, working the same case that she is convinced led to her husband's murder. An investigation which is deeply entwined with a series of disappearances that has swept the city, and brings Sandra ever closer to a centuries-old secret society that will do anything to stay in the shadows.
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Release dateNov 19, 2013
ISBN9781629231235
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The Lost Girls of Rome
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Donato Carrisi

Donato Carrisi studied law and criminology before he began working as a writer for television. The Whisperer, Carrisi's first novel, won five international literary prizes, has been sold in nearly twenty countries, and has been translated into languages as varied as French, Danish, Hebrew and Vietnamese. Carrisi lives in Rome.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Definitely needed to retreat, recoup and reread certain parts before charging ahead. It kept my attention which became my confusion which became my desire to see if I was right, wrong or even close.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Don't let the title fool you. Yes, Rome is missing some girls & it's the search for their killer that brings together a disparate set of characters. But this is a book about evil....how we define it & how we react to it.
    Say you had a loved on who was murdered & the killer was never caught. You are given the chance to decide their fate. Would you choose justice or revenge? Remain a victim or become an executioner?
    This is just one of the thorny issues the characters of this complex novel have to wrestle with. It can be read as a straight up thriller but on another level it is a study of human nature, the choices we make & how we rationalize them.
    It's a difficult book to summarize for a few reasons & after the first 130 pages or so, I was wishing I'd kept notes. There is a large cast & 5-6 seemingly unrelated plot lines that are set in different frames.
    Sandra Vega is a forensic photographer/cop in Milan. Her husband, a journalist, died 5 months ago after falling on a construction site. She's having trouble moving on & hasn't even picked up his belongings from the station. Then she gets a phone call from Schalber, an uber annoying Interpol agent that makes her question everything she thought she knew about her husband's death. After going through his bags, all indications point to Rome as the place she'll find answers.
    Marcus is a mysterious man with a gift for reading crime scenes. It's ironic that he can crawl around the mind of a killer because he doesn't even know who he is. After taking a bullet to the brain a while back, he has amnesia. Every night he relives the experience that altered his life & resulted in the death of this friend Devok. Each morning he remembers one additional detail & he wonders what he'll do if he ever recovers the face of the shooter. Will he turn him in or avenge his friend? Pretty weighty stuff, especially if you're a priest.
    By day, he works with Clemente, the man who nursed him back to health. They investigate violent crimes that have gone unsolved & as the book opens, they're searching for a missing young woman who may be the latest victim of a serial killer who has evaded police.
    There are other related cold cases & they discover a pattern, Someone is contacting people affected by the murders & letting them know who did it, giving them a choice....justice or retribution?
    In separate passages throughout the book, we meet a man referred to as "the hunter". His story begins the previous year & as it progresses, we follow him as he searches for a serial killer from Paris to Mexico City, Kiev & finally a small town near Chernobyl. His identity is not revealed 'til the final pages & it's a revelation that throws a completely different spin on the rest of the book.
    Each plot line is intriguing in itself but gradually the author begins to weave them all together. The characters cross paths & become involved in the others' search, affecting the outcomes. All of a sudden, you realize each story is part of a bigger picture & some of these people are not who they claim to be. Red herrings run amok & the author uses subtle misdirection that ensures your jaw will drop when twists are revealed. At one point, I thought everything was coming together then noticed I still had half the book to go.
    There are many peripheral characters, some in passing, others with larger roles. But the main two are Sandra & Marcus, both of whom will be profoundly affected by what they learn.
    I really enjoyed this. I could be picky & say there are moments when you have to suspend your disbelief & minor errors in medical procedures. Also, I found the dialogue a bit stilted in places but this may be due to blips in translation. But it did just what a great thriller should do....kept me turning the pages to see how it all shook out & didn't hand deliver the answers.
    The ending left me wanting more of one character in particular & I would definitely pick up a sequel. All in all, an absorbing, intelligent & intricately plotted novel full of suspense & situations that make you think.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I wasn't sure I'd like this book because of its vague connection to Catholicism—I'm one of those readers who was not enthralled with Dan Brown. In addition, I sometimes do not have the patience to repeatedly move back and forth in time and across geography—Winter's Tale is the one book that, for me, was totally successful with this device. Despite these two early itches, I found I'd enjoyed Carrisi's book enough that I would like to read The Whisperer and see from there whether his other works would be of interest.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The Lost Girls of Rome by Donato Carrisi is a crime thriller with interesting sub-plots that are woven superbly by the master touch of the author to bring out a compelling story with a spectacular conclusion.A young Italian girl, Lara, has gone missing in Rome. Police investigations reveals striking resemblance to other cases in which girls were abducted and their throats cut after a month of captivity. Marcus and Clemente are on the hunt to find her. They are members of an old secret sect linked to the Vatican known as the penitenzieri. The sect is covertly probing the spate of abductions and murders of young girls across Rome, and bringing justice for the victims.Five months after the death of her husband, a journalist on assignment, forensic analyst Sandra Vega, have reasons to doubt his death was an accident. A phone call in the middle of the night further arouses her suspicion. With a handful of clues, Sandra travels to Rome and pursues her own leads in the investigation of a serial killer in an attempt to uncover the whole truth.What was the assignment her husband was working on at the time of his death? Is it connected with the missing girls of Rome?The characters are superbly conceived. Surprising and fascinating developments and unexpected plot twists make it difficult to put the book down. The alternating stories from one protagonist to the other from chapter to chapter makes you bounce back and forth, keeping you sharp alive with interest.If you are into crime thrillers with mystery, action and suspense thrown in, then this might be the ideal read for you this month.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Last year I was blown away by this author's novel, "The Whisperer", it was just that good.This novel is different from the last in everything but the stellar writing and the suspenseful story line. A police photographers husband is found dead and Sandra finds herself in the middle of what will turn out to be a very strange and horrifying case. Four girls have been taken in Rome, three of the bodies found, the fourth still missing and she is though to be still alive. There are actual three different story lines to follow, of course they all eventually converge. I read this as an ARC on my kindle, so there are not chapter breaks to tell the reader when it was a different thread taking over, though of course once one started reading it was easy enough to figure out. Just a bit confusing in the beginning when the author is setting the beginning stages of the plot. This is a book about a group called the penitenzieri, which are so to speak a group of priest-profilers and the Paenitentiaria, which is the archive of sins. The author actually wrote this book after meeting a priest who told her the story of this group. Amazing I wiki'd it and it does exist, I had never heard of it before.Darkness and light, where evil exists in the shadows, people who are able to transform into someone else, taking over their lives. A unique way of revenge for wrongs done and a hunter, who is not whom he seems. Many twist and turns but this novel keeps the reader engaged, if at times frustrated, wondering what will be overturned next. Another very good read from an author who is fast becoming one of my favorites.ARC from NetGalley.