By Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli

Set in today’s London between 2014 and 2017, the Detective Eric Shaw Trilogy has as the main character a detective chief inspector leading a forensic team at Scotland Yard that is facing a crucial period in his life. Excessive dedication to work caused his marriage to fail and turned him into a cop ready to break more than one rule to satisfy his obsession with bringing criminals to justice. His already precarious balance is undermined by a forensic investigator on his team who is much younger than him, Adele Pennington, for whom he has feelings that he considers inappropriate given the age difference, and by a series of crimes on which he investigates together with his god-daughter DI Miriam Leroux. They bear similarities to a 1994 unsolved case in which Eric himself rescued a seven-year-old girl from a crime scene, the only witness to the massacre of her family.