Milan Station

NATIONAL BESTSELLER OF ITALY.
SENSATION OF 2022.
A NOVEL BY THE GENIUS OF MODERN ITALIAN THRILLER.

Milan. Inspector Riccardo Mezzanotte has been transferred from the homicide unit to the railway police department at the Central Station. A former punk rocker, he despises hierarchy and regulations. He also has an innate tendency to get into trouble… Riccardo begins an investigation into a case that seems to interest no one else: someone is leaving horribly mutilated animal corpses at the station. The inspector senses there is something more to it than meets the eye. But where does one search for a sadist?
Laura Cordero is twenty years old, beautiful and rich, and she has a secret. The girl is used to calling it a "gift," though for her it is more of a curse – she feels other people's emotions as if they were her own. Recently, Laura started volunteering at the Social Protection Center at the station, and she is also searching for someone: two children who sometimes wander here in the evenings – lonely and abandoned. But each time these children mysteriously disappear right under her nose…
Riccardo and Laura do not yet know that these two cases merge into one large mystery – and they cannot imagine how dark and dangerous it is…
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"What happens in the depths of Milan Station? Monsters, killers – or just desperate people waiting to be saved? Jacopo De Michelis takes us on an amazing journey, where gothic, thriller, and poetry mix in a cocktail of terrifying power". – Giancarlo De Cataldo

"Italian noir changes approximately every twenty years: in 1989 with "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco, in 2002 with "I Kill" by Giorgio Faletti – and in 2022 with "Milan Station" by Jacopo De Michelis, a novel that has revolutionized the Italian thriller". – Corriere della Sera

"With his novel, De Michelis rewrites the canons of the genre". – Maurizio De Giovanni

"Jacopo De Michelis, the best thriller author of modern Italy, has created a gripping multi-layered thriller with a multitude of twists, written with astonishing skill". – Antonio D'Orrico