Short chopped phrases, sparse descriptions, text loaded with maximum drama. Already in the first few pages there are so many plot twists that they would be enough for an Aunt Agatha novel. Only she would have found out everything in the end. Grippando, like his literary teachers, is not interested in the process of leading the reader by the nose with all its traps, false clues, and omissions, but in the psychology of heroes and the sociology of society. Of course, the father of the “legal detective” genre, Erle Stanley Gardner, with his famous court fights stretched out over the entire novel and his invariable winner, lawyer Perry Mason, could not be avoided here. However, there is nothing to be surprised here - James Grippando worked as a lawyer in the courts of first instance for twelve years.