Book Catalogue
The Less Unkind
Rosaria Giorgi
Copenhagen, 1994. At the young age of twenty-one, Pico’s world is a tapestry of linguistic enigmas and academic ambition. A student at the University of Copenhagen, she is thrilled to secure a summer position at the enigmatic antique dealer Antonio Bartram’s shop. When Antonio vanishes abruptly, leaving behind only a series of cryptic messages, Pico resolves to harness her linguistic prowess to decode the clues, only to set in motion a chain of events with irreversible consequences.
As Pico delves deeper, she uncovers a labyrinthine plot stretching back to the 1969 theft of a priceless Caravaggio from a Sicilian church. Tangled in the crosshairs of an obsessive art collector, a police murder investigation, and a Mafia-sanctioned vendetta, her quest propels her across Europe: from the hidden shadows beneath Copenhagen’s Nordic serenity, along the sun-kissed streets of the Italian Riviera, and even through the secretive corridors of the Vatican Library, where a mysterious tome holds the key to a buried mystery.
