Böcker av Marisa Livet

This book contains a messy series of stories, which are joined together by a very thin thread, that I leave the readers to guess, if they want to glimpse it. There is no temporal unity, there are no autobiographical criteria in common to all the stories, although there are, in some cases, more or less obvious clues.I like nonsense, it wakes up brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient of existence. It's a way of looking at life from the wrong side of a telescope... And this allows you to laugh at all its melancholic realities.That extraordinary person who was the Italian actor Massimo Troisi once said "There are those who argue that to tell good stories you just have to look around. I don't believe it, because if that were the case, the traffic police would all be Ingmar Bergman."Just thinking back to these words, I would say that I wanted to write good stories, but I was only able to tell what I saw or what I wanted to see.The only common feature of these stories is that they are fragments of holidays.

A collection of short stories, which have, as common denominator, the feature of being all about Russians and based on real facts.Actually there is very little fiction. In most of cases I wrote a literal description of true stories. In few occasions I adapted slightly a description or I shortened an event, for narrative needs only.The stories are presented in casual temporary order, like a voluntary backwards and forwards excursion in scattered memories.

An American soap opera company arrived in Arezzo to film some instalments of their serial. The actors who play the leading roles in the soap are very popular in Italy and they asked for a calm and relaxing location during their stay. The beautiful farm of Peter and William, which hosts a comfortable B&B and a restaurant, would be the ideal place for the American actors, the producer, the director and the screenwriter. But a malicious fate has something different in store for them. A cruel killer starts targeting the actors of the soap, without any apparent motive. The local police are stumbling around in the dark with no clue. But the murderer hasn?t dealt with William?s uncommon foresight. Or maybe it?s William who neglects the killer?s ingenuity?.

Un'altra avventura di William, Peter e i loro amici, investigatori dilettanti e del tenente Ciricola, dei Carabinieri di Arezzo. Questa volta dovranno scoprire il misterioso assassino che colpisce gli attori di una soap opera.

Iris Ciancaleoni, una bella e ricca imprenditrice di successo, felicemente sposata, si toglie la vita inspiegabilmente, gettandosi nell'oceano dal balcone della sua cabina, durante una crociera di lusso. Il marito è sconvolto dal dolore e in più è fornito di un alibi inattaccabile. Dopo un'accurata inchiesta, il caso viene archiviato come suicidio dovuto a una forte depressione. Due anni più tardi, il vedovo di Iris è prossimo a rifarsi una vita e sposarsi nuovamente. Ma la migliore amica di Iris, Loredana Sanchini, la moglie del sindaco di Capacciano, continua a essere tormentata da dubbi. Proprio non riesce a immaginare che la morte di Iris sia stata un atto volontario. La signora Sanchini pensa di rivolgersi ai suoi compaesani, proprietari della fattoria "L'Uliveto" che hanno ormai solida fama d'investigatori dilettanti tra gli abitanti del paese. Riusciranno William, Peter, Reginald e i loro amici a scoprire la verità su quanto è accaduto due anni prima, su quella nave da crociera?

Iris Ciancaleoni Alunni committed suicide while she was on a cruise with her husband Sabatino. Two years later, the devastated widower seems to recover from his deep grief and meets a lady with whom he hopes to find comfort and affection for starting a new life. But one of Iris' friends is not persuaded that everything was really cleared up even though the police have no new elements to justify the reopening of the case. She turns to William Collins and his friends, whose reputation of talented amateur detectives is well known among the inhabitants of Capacciano, a Tuscan village perched on the hill surrounding Arezzo. Will they help her to find the truth about Iris' death? "Goodbyes, They Often Come In Waves" is the third instalment in the William Collins & Peter Boyle's series - another entertaining crime thriller.

Everybody knew that nothing unexpected or dangerous ever happened at St. Osmanna's College. Then one day Sister Bernadette fell down the main stairway and... Four friends, who apparently could not be more different from each other, are trying to solve the mysteries which are troubling the quiet and peaceful life of a small Irish village and its inhabitants.

Reginald McKenzie, un prete cattolico irlandese, dopo una dolorosa crisi spirituale, ritorna allo stato laicale e si trova nelle necessità di ricostruire tutta la sua vita. Alcuni amici lo invitano a raggiungerli in Toscana e a stabilirsi da loro. Reginald cerca di trovare i suoi nuovi punti di riferimento e di ricominciare da capo. Ben presto incontra nuove persone interessanti. Themba, un enigmatico professore di filosofia, Ellie, una restauratrice inglese di mezza età, che ha scelto di vivere in Toscana e Giorgio, il fotografo locale del piccolo villaggio di Capacciano. Alla fattoria fervono i preparativi per una festa di nozze molto esclusiva ed elegante in occasione del matrimonio della bellissima, capricciosa e ricca Fiammetta Innocenti, unica figlia di un importante uomo politico italiano. Ma le cose non vanno sempre come previsto. Il gruppo di amici si trova coinvolto in un omicidio brutale e deve dimostrare l'innocenza di Giorgio, che sembra essere destinato ad diventare il capro espiatorio.

The same three Irish characters who were the protagonists of "The perilous Art of Forgetting", William Collins, Peter Boyle and Reginald McKenzie are back. A few years have passed since then, and they have left Ireland to start a new page of their life in charming Tuscany. Once again they get involved, against their will and expectation, in dramatic happenings and mysterious murders and have to summon up their speculative intellectual talents to unravel the evidences and the plots. What's happened to the beautiful, rich and spoilt Fiammetta Innocenti only a few days before her wedding? Was she really killed by Giorgio Cini, the photographer?

Una storia che si svolge in un apparentemente tranquillo e sonnolento paesino irlandese, dove non capita mai nulla. Almeno fino al giorno in cui suor Bernadette cade rovinosamente dalle scale del Collegio di Sant'Osmanna, innescando una serie di drammatici eventi, che quattro amici, diversissimi tra loro, cercheranno di risolvere.