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Noir

L'angelo custode

(The Guardian Angel. A Woodstock Investigation)

Ponte alle Grazie, September 2022, pp.272

An unusual pair of sleuths – Adriano Scala, a.k.a. Woodstock, an ineffectual forty-year-old who acquires extraordinary powers of deduction after taking drugs, and deputy commissioner Chiesa, a straight-as-a-die police officer – investigate a heinous crime that has shaken Rome.

 A crime novel with a comedy undertone set in a Rome that’s not so well known.

Adriano Scala – everybody calls him Woodstock. Pushing forty but not much to show for it. He has a temporary job in a primary school and a daughter, but his partner left him a long time ago, as soon as she realised he’d never grow up. But Woodstock has an amazing talent for deduction. A talent that surfaces only when he takes drugs. MD, hashish, marijuana… anything goes to set in motion the first-rate grey cells of this far-Left Sherlock Holmes.

Deputy police commissioner Giacomo Chiesa, on the other hand, is straight as a die. He dresses impeccably, comes from the provinces, is a self-made man, believes in the Law and focusses only on his family and his job.

When the decapitated body of an eleven-year-old child is discovered in San Lorenzo – the old district of railway workers, students and fascists – Chiesa and Woodstock’s paths collide.

Ponte alle Grazie, September 2022, pp.272

  • “What seduces the reader are the moments of breach into the paranormal, which echo partly the novels and short stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (and his drift to spiritualism) and partly the world of superheroes (…) I applaud the author’s descriptions of the city (Rome).” 

    Tiziana Lo Porto, D - La Repubblica

  • “With remarkably skilful writing, young Giorda constructs a serial pair of investigators, drifting between suggestions of genre and film.” 

    Cecchino Antonini, Il Manifesto

  • “A premise that would wear out the most skilled, seasoned writer, and yet Giorda handles it with the humour and daring of a guy with far more experience under his belt than he makes out.” (…) “(Woodstock) is a drop-out in the best tradition of American noir, reminiscent of  Leonard, Lansdale and Burke.” “(…) enjoyable, entertaining, plausible” (…) “a true writer.”

    Antonio Manzini , TuttoLibri, La Stampa

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Leo Giorda

Leo Giorda (1994) was born and brought up in Rome. At the age of twenty-five, after obtaining a degree in Cultural Heritage specialising in Art History, he began travelling in Italy and Europe, supporting himself with various jobs and always harbouring his dream of writing. Ponte alle Grazie published L’angelo custode (2022), his Woodstock debut.

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