Massimo Mesciulam

The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.

Set in the imposing Kaiser Academy—a private boarding school that looks like something out of a Gothic novel—*Nightmare School* tells the story of Vittoria’s inexplicable disappearance. A group of friends—Isa, Michi, and Gibbo—join forces to search for her, discovering that the school is far more than a place of learning: it is steeped in legend, a guardian of dangerous secrets, and presided over by an authoritarian headmistress who is the heir to a shadowy alchemist founder…

Veronica, after a long trial and two years in prison for the alleged murder of her mother and her lover, is found innocent. She is only twenty years old, but it is difficult to look ahead...

A young man lies in a hospital suspended between life and death. The police know nothing about him. The patient, in his rare moments of consciousness, only remembers his gang’s involvement in a robbery of a rare painting, and the mysterious Madame Jacno who commissioned Fabrizio, the gang leader, to steal the work of art. But someone is still trying to kill the patient, and as his life is continually threatened, his memory slowly comes back to him…!

A pensioner with many phobias realises one day that four million francs have been mistakenly deposited into his account. Instead of notifying the bank, he makes an unexpected decision: he withdraws the money and flees on his moped.

An earthquake knocks out communications, power and the escape route from a luxury mountain hotel. Some guests have secrets. Secrets to die for.

Homicide Chief Kostas Charistos interrupts his vacation to investigate the discovery of a body after an earthquake on the Greek island where he was staying with his wife, daughter and her boyfriend. But he also has to deal with the murder of a young Albanian couple.