Rome, 1975. Donatella Colasanti and Rosaria Lopez are discovered in the trunk of a car. Tortured and held captive for thirty-six hours, one of them has already been dead for several hours when the police intervene. The culprits? Three sons of wealthy, well-to-do families, sheltered and raised with a social contempt for women and the working class.
What has been called “the Circeo massacre” goes beyond a simple news item. A true societal earthquake, it marks a turning point in Italian history.
Professor of Italian literature at the University of Besançon and specialist in Italian culture, Serena Gentilhomme is passionate about the news. She is the author of several stories deciphering various affairs.
A new book about the Circeo massacre, which marked Italy in the 1970s and was analyzed by major figures such as Pasolini and Umberto Eco.
The story of a little-known news item in France, directly relevant to our contemporary realities.
An author with a passion for crime stories, who had already devoted one of her previous books to an Italian crime story (Ce que ça fait de tuer, 2019).
