NATIONAL BESTSELLER OF ITALY.SENSATION OF 2022.NOVEL FROM THE GENIUS OF A MODERN ITALIAN THRILLER.Milan. Inspector Ricardo Mezzanotte has been transferred from the homicide department to the railway police department of the Central Station. A former punk rocker, he does not tolerate hierarchy and regulations. He also has an innate tendency to get into trouble... Ricardo begins to investigate a case that no one else seems to be interested in: someone is leaving the corpses of horribly mutilated animals at a train station. The inspector feels there is more to this than it seems. But where can one look for a sadist? Laura Cordero is twenty years old, she is beautiful and rich, and she has a secret. The girl is used to calling it a “gift,” although for her it’s more of a curse—she feels other people’s emotions as if they were her own. Laura recently got a job as a volunteer at the Social Welfare Center at the station, and she is also looking for someone: two children who sometimes wander here in the evenings - lonely and abandoned. But every time these children disappear without a trace from under her nose...Ricardo and Laura still do not know that these two cases are merging into one big secret - and they do not imagine how dark and dangerous it is... “What is happening in the bowels of the Milan train station? Monsters, killers - or just desperate people waiting for salvation? Jacopo De Michelis takes us on an amazing journey in which gothic, thriller and poetics are mixed in a cocktail of terrible power." – Giancarlo De Cataldo “Italian noir changes approximately every twenty years: in 1989 with “The Name of the Rose” by Umberto Eco, in 2002 with “I Kill” by Giorgio Faletti – and in 2022 with “Milan Station” by Jacopo De Michelis, a novel revolutionized the Italian thriller." – Corriere della Sera “With his novel, De Michelis rewrites the canons of the genre.” – Maurizio De Giovanni “Jacopo De Michelis, the best suspense writer in modern Italy, has created an exciting, multi-layered thriller with a lot of twists, written with amazing skill.” – Antonio D'Orrico