The Commissioner Barbero is a gruff soft-hearted as a cupcake; its only two vices are fantasizing about women and dunking in coffee and pastries waiting for the holidays. Disaffected of his work and of the reality that surrounds him, the only one who really seems to understand her dog is Atom.
Marta is a comely nurse Maggiore Hospital of Novara, Department transfusions. He spends time in the company of pussy Solitudo and neurotic fantasies about Prince Charming who will come to save her from her prison.
Professor Valenti is an intellectual and a man of another age, sober, elegant and, above all, passionate speaker to audiences enriched in elite clubs. Yet, no one seems to really appreciate his labors, until the day in which this strange story begins ...
The common thread that unites the three main characters will not be the only gloom in the background, but the color of the blood shed by a serial killer who works with methods never seen before. They call it the pick. A ruthless but ambiguous figure, able to ensnare with his sinister charm, in a crescendo of tension and passion, every character in this novel in which love and death have never been so united.

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