La Milano of the devil in the latest noir by Milanese Dan Brown

Milano black, satanist milan. Of that satanism hidden under jackets and ties. This is what the Italian “Dan Brown” Fabrizio Carcano, a well-known Milanese crime novelist, tells in his latest book “La Notte del Diavolo” with a serial and generational investigator who has conquered Milanese readers over the years. Since Halloween, his latest noir, 'La Notte del Diavolo', has begun to be distributed in Milanese bookstores in advance, unleashing a metropolitan hunt for readers. Many had actually already taken action by pre-ordering it on Amazon (triggering high-chart numbers) anticipating the general destruction that has only begun in recent days. For the crime novelist from Corvetto, who has been living in Bergamo for reasons of the heart for a few years, a start with a bang for his thirteenth metropolitan noir, where vice commissioner Bruno Ardigò, the 'murder hunter', the dark detective protagonist of Carcano's previous novels, who has been nicknamed the Milanese Dan Brown for years, returns to the scene once again. The Night of the Devil (Mursia, page 247, Euro 17,00) – set in the summer of 2020 in Milano who is leaving the virus behind but still wears masks – it's a mystery that returns to shine a spotlight on the world of Satanism. Where Ardigo', head of the Homicide section, will have to dig, descending into the blackest heart of Milano. Starting from the ferocious murder of a man with his body covered in demonic tattoos, including the Seal of Lucifer: a distinctive sign of a master, of someone high in the hierarchies of Satanism. “A phenomenon present in the Milan area and in the areas of Northern Italy much more than what the journalistic and judicial reports tell us,” explains Carcano. Who adds: “Once again I'm telling the story Milano, its perhaps lesser-known neighborhoods, with their peculiarities and their mysteries, accompanying readers for example in the mysterious Temple of the Night, an underground well in a public park in the Gorla area or to discover the underground necropolises and cemeteries buried under deconsecrated churches within Milanese neighborhoods”.