An anonymous, undistinguished magistrate—packed off to Sardinia to investigate the cyanide poisoning of a fellow jurist—lands in the middle of a contemporary Italian Citizen Kane, with obvious echoes of DÅrrenmatt. It's Holy Week 1978, and as the Red Brigade issues its communiquÇs on the condition of kidnapped industrialist Aldo Moro, the judge digging into the death of Don Valerio Garau faces contradictory revelations about the dead man at every turn. Read full book review >