Where's Joan? A mystery novel, an agile prose, lively, essential.
The varied story begins from family issues to broaden the horizons in a glimpse of an era, which includes disturbing topics of daily events such as terrorism, crime, migration, the troubled world of everyday life ...
Friendship, love, solidarity are the main themes of a world in which women are the counterpart in the meanness, the whims, in malice, envy in women. So we read in the preface, the story then takes the trend of the "yellow" with the disappearance of Gianna, the protagonist, with the research of the investigators, with the false witnesses, with the fleeting hope of discovery, with bitter disappointments.
Gianna has left writings, diaries, "which, rather than clarify, enhance the reader's curiosity for the complexity of the story played out on several fronts: the escape, the desire for a new life, the murder suspect, a new love ... "(G. Ladolfi).