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Una raccolta di racconti brevi che hanno per protagonisti gli abitanti dell'immaginario paesino toscano di Capacciano. Ogni storia si articola intorno ad un incontro,apparentemente casuale, da cui prende inizio una vicenda che conduce sia i personaggi, sia il lettore verso una direzione insospettata. I temi principali rimangono l'amicizia, l'amore e la comprensione, con un salutare pizzico di divertita ironia.

Among the protagonists of these stories there are the minor characters that were present in the former books of the series dedicated to the Irish amateur detectives who settled in Tuscany. The main characters, just for once, don't appear at all. But the protagonist is the fictional village of Capacciano, by the Arno River, not far from Arezzo together with its inhabitants. The common theme of the stories is the casual encounter, which may change people's perspective and lives.

An American soap opera company arrived in Arezzo to film some instalments of their serial. The actors who play the leading roles in the soap are very popular in Italy and they asked for a calm and relaxing location during their stay. The beautiful farm of Peter and William, which hosts a comfortable B&B and a restaurant, would be the ideal place for the American actors, the producer, the director and the screenwriter. But a malicious fate has something different in store for them. A cruel killer starts targeting the actors of the soap, without any apparent motive. The local police are stumbling around in the dark with no clue. But the murderer hasn't dealt with William's uncommon foresight. Or maybe it's William who neglects the killer's ingenuity....

A collection of short stories, which have, as common denominator, the feature of being all about Russians and based on real facts. Actually there is very little fiction. In most of cases I wrote a literal description of true stories. In few occasions I adapted slightly a description or I shortened an event, for narrative needs only. The stories are presented in casual temporary order, like a voluntary backwards and forwards excursion in scattered memories.

Iris Ciancaleoni Alunni committed suicide while she was on a cruise with her husband Sabatino. Two years later, the devastated widower seems to recover from his deep grief and meets a lady with whom he hopes to find comfort and affection for starting a new life. But one of Iris' friends is not persuaded that everything was really cleared up even though the police have no new elements to justify the reopening of the case. She turns to William Collins and his friends, whose reputation of talented amateur detectives is well known among the inhabitants of Capacciano, a Tuscan village perched on the hill surrounding Arezzo. Will they help her to find the truth about Iris' death? "Goodbyes, They Often Come In Waves" is the third instalment in the William Collins & Peter Boyle's series - another entertaining crime thriller.

The same three Irish characters who were the protagonists of "The perilous Art of Forgetting", William Collins, Peter Boyle and Reginald McKenzie are back. A few years have passed since then, and they have left Ireland to start a new page of their life in charming Tuscany. Once again they get involved, against their will and expectation, in dramatic happenings and mysterious murders and have to summon up their speculative intellectual talents to unravel the evidences and the plots. What's happened to the beautiful, rich and spoilt Fiammetta Innocenti only a few days before her wedding? Was she really killed by Giorgio Cini, the photographer?

Everybody knew that nothing unexpected or dangerous ever happened at St. Osmanna's College. Then one day Sister Bernadette fell down the main stairway and...Four friends, who apparently could not be more different from each other, are trying to solve the mysteries which are troubling the quiet and peaceful life of a small Irish village and its inhabitants.

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