Chi ha ucciso Sarah?

The story of an investigation, a coming to grips, a path of discovery and rebellion leading to a surprise ending, Who Killed Sarah? is an exemplary novel of Andrej Longo’s work, a moral and psychological detective story, taut, disorienting, constantly stretched in a quest that is both human and literary.
Naples, a day of suffocating heat. A residential neighborhood, Posillipo, an old, elegant, well-inhabited building. Yet in the hallway “it was so dark you couldn’t see anything. It was even a little scary.” It was here that a young policeman on patrol found the dead body of a girl, Sarah, her body lying prone, a wound on her forehead. “With one hand I tried to close her eyes, but they kept opening”: they are eyes that haunt him, demanding an explanation for an incomprehensible death. Officer Acanfora comes from the suburbs, he is used to crime, but this time the violence came to the streets of the rich. What does Sarah, a girl with no problems and no vices, have to do with a crime like that? The investigation is led by Commissioner Santagata, an experienced but hard-to-figure officer. A lone man who does not allow himself to be sidetracked by pressure. And so for Officer Acanfora and Commissioner Santagata, the interrogations, the searches, the hypotheses, the whole investigation into the girl’s past, through that bright world inhabited by professionals and distinguished people, becomes a journey into a swamp of darkness, into an evil and guilty indifference. “Suddenly the city had awakened from its sleep, but I thought that instead of being day, it always continued to be night.”
The story of an investigation, a coming to grips, a journey of discovery and rebellion leading to a surprise ending, Who Killed Sarah? is an exemplary novel of Andrej Longo’s work, a moral and psychological detective story, taut, disorienting, constantly reaching out in a quest that is both human and literary.