My criminal Italy travel has led me to Rome , Trieste and Bologna now in the area of Parma , the Po, as The mist flow the novel by Valerio Varesi not only the title there, but also something of his secret protagonist. Wide and sluggish, he meanders through the plain, dragging down here from its shores, there on an island that holds secrets to his cause and make it sometime again. And the rhythm his first unlimited swelling, then slowly falling high-water determines the course of this story. Which can escape from all the impatience and the real protagonist, Commissario Sonerien not, who wants to advance his investigation but has no choice but to spend his days on the narrow streets and in the small villages along the river and lose.
main characteristic of this mystery thrillers and success is its slowness. Sonerien tried to explain the death of two old loner and brothers, one of which disappears in the middle of the night with his barge in the ever-rising tides of the Po, while the other day later on a window of the hospital is found shattered. That there are neither added nor can involve accidents, at least the Commissioner will soon even clear, and when it comes out that both brothers have committed in the Second World War as a fascist Blackshirts brutal crimes, characterized rapidly and a possible motive. As if in slow motion takes place after the search for the culprit there, and you follow Sonerien at leisure in the Circolo Nautico to the Carabinieri and the Osteria, where the Commissioner foaming Fortanina drink, eat terrific ham and of allusions and coincidences to catch a further shreds his trail to find an explanation for what had happened investigated. (The random way occurs several times in the charming form of Soneris girlfriend Angela, whose fetish, her lover only in the most unlikely places to meet, the two are indeed in hot water, but while the investigation forward brings.)
In the mist above the bottom reading the slow-food-like pleasure of the diffuse tension, like a watch spring soon expired steadily, driven thriller but without any hassle. This also applies to the final confrontation with the murderer have come from far away, which seems more like a talk to the psychologist, while revealing a plot of refined elegance. For once I can praise without limitation the snippets on the blurb quote that says: "Some books are missing even before one has read it. Varesis The mist flow one of them. "Fortunately, keeping booksellers and libraries of ready Varesi Valerio (Italian on how to German ) nor several other books.
Technicals: Valerio Varesi, The mist flow. Commissario Sonerien looking for a dead body. German by Karin Rother. Reinbek, Rowohlt Paperback 2006th ISBN 978 3499 23 780 5th The original is titled "Il fiume delle Nebbie " 2003 published by Edizioni Frassinelli in Milan.
