Rome, May 1953.
Countess Rossi Marcovaldi is found dead with a spear in her chest.
This is the first of a series of murders that will shake the nobility in the capital.
For each victim, there’s only one clue: a poker card.
Agostino Clodoveo is a commissario 'de noantri', a true Roman.
He speaks with his wife’s ghost, gulps down loads of cappuccino, and always looks dishevelled.
But he’s the one who accepts the player’s challenge.
The game is a race against time.
And it will change his life.


ITALIAN NEWS AGENCY ANSA: "A SERIAL KILLER IN ROME IN 1953"

"A serial killer in Rome, in 1953. This is the setting of a noir fiction story where poker marks inexplicable murders that are as cruel and sophisticated as the bluffs of the game itself.