I Delitti di Alice by Guillermo Martinez

 I Delitti di Alice

by Guillermo Martinez is one of the most intriguing, fascinating, captivating books that you will read in particular if you love mathematic, probabilities, murders, murderers. This miscellaneous of components will play an excellent part in this torbid thriller. A literary thriller, after all, telling us the hidden part of Lewis Carroll: his love, devotion for children and the naked pictures realized with some of them in a period where, poor us! portaying naked children wasn't considered a bad act.

The protagonist of this book is a young argentinian researcher, mr.G. In Oxford from several years, develops a new theory that could be helpful for trying to sort out something; a young member of a confraternity on Lewis Carroll discovered a page of a journal probably broken by the sister of Carroll once the writer dead, for hiding something....

This solitary little page, a fragment after all, in the monumental works and production of Carroll could change the destiny of Carroll and his reputation; Kristen wants to share her impressions with the members. 

News is spread; she is heavily injured during a car incident where she is invested; but she is just the first one, because later will be poisoned another person... While the investigations goes on, G. and Seldom discover that some members of the confraternity share a strong passion for children and naked pictures.

Seldom and the young researcher tries so to discover why the killer is killing in this way: is he/she inspired directly from the land of Alice in Wonderland? Why these pictures of naked children are everywhere? And why, at a certain point all the members of the confraternity receive disgusting pictures, including the Prince? The story becomes embarassing.

If everybody have receive these pictures it means that no one have received anything. It's mathematical. 

But...a third murder the one of another member of the confraternity, will mean an accelleration of the story. Secrets are never-ending; there is the suicide of a still 11 years old girl; the parents are certain that this one was a suicide. Weird....

I can't tell you more. The final chapters of this book are pretty strong. 

It was a sufferance reading of children manipulated, violated, used by horrible creatures. Devastating, but...The book is very good! The story is solide and built with competency. I appreciated the fact that mathematicians sorted out this story; their way of thinking is stunningly acute and interesting.

Highly recommended.

I thank Marsilio for the physical copy of the book.

Anna Maria Polidori