ENGLISH BOOKS

The Red Desert Series

Thirty years after the failure of the Hera mission, NASA is launching the Isis mission, which aims to colonise the Red Planet.
Among the first five colonists is Anna Persson, a Swedish exobiologist who embarked on this adventure in the hope of starting a new life far from Earth.
However, Mars has an incredible discovery in store for her: the key to a mystery hidden in the depths of Valles Marineris.

Books in the series:
1) Point of No Return
2) People of Mars
3) Invisible Enemy
4) Back Home

Genres: hard science fiction, techno-thriller, action.
Themes: Mars, space exploration, space colonisation, extraterrestrial life, free will delusion, anti-heroine, artificial intelligence.
Pubblication: 2014-2015

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The Detective Eric Shaw Trilogy

What if someone you love is a serial killer?

Set between 2014 and 2017, the Detective Eric Shaw Trilogy has as the main character a detective chief inspector leading a forensic team assisting police detectives in their investigations at Scotland Yard.
DCI Shaw is facing a crucial period in his life. Excessive dedication to work caused his marriage to fail and turned him into a cop ready to break more than one rule to satisfy his obsession with bringing criminals to justice. His already precarious balance is undermined by a forensic investigator on his team who is much younger than him, Adele Pennington, for whom he has feelings that he considers inappropriate given the age difference, and by a series of murders on which he investigates together with his god-daughter DI Miriam Leroux. They bear similarities to a 1994 cold case in which Eric himself rescued a seven-year-old girl from a crime scene, the only witness to the massacre of her family.
In this psychological crime thriller series, the border between investigation and crime becomes blurred in a story that isn’t only about finding the culprit, but rather observing how the main character decides to react to his shocking findings. In a dark game of deception and suspense, the reader will be thrown into modern-day London and will end up wondering where the line between good and evil, justice and revenge really is.

Books in the series:
1) The Mentor
2) Syndrome
3) Beyond the Limit

Genres: crime thriller, psychological thriller, suspense.
Themes: female serial killer, forensic investigation, crime scene, flawed hero, revenge.
Publication: 2022-2013 (first edition of The Mentor published by Amazon Publishing in 2015)

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Kindred Intentions

24 hours.
2 people.
1 target.

It was 10 a.m. when undercover agent Amelia Jennings arrived at the law firm Goldberg & Associates for a job interview. Her mission was to investigate a series of murders involving some well-known lawyers in the City. Her target, an elusive hired killer who had been of interest to the police for months.
But her plan is doomed to fall apart before it even starts.
In less than twenty-four hours Amelia will be the prey in a man hunt and her destiny will become entwined with Mike Connor’s.
Their intentions, apparently similar, may prove to be opposite, but the affinity binding them goes beyond what they think they know about each other.

One day to survive.
One day to let go of the past.

Genres: action thriller, romantic suspense.
Themes: hired killer, contract killing, spy, anti-hero, anti-heroine, shootings, chases, kidnapping, explosions, black humour.
Publication: 2016

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ITALIAN BOOKS

If you read Italian, there are more books for you!
You can also switch to the Italian website for more info.

Il Ciclo dell’Aurora (The Aurora Chronicles)

Red Desert is only the first part in a bigger series, the Aurora Chronicles, which includes four more volumes.
If you read Italian, you can find out what happens next on Earth, Mars, and beyond.

Genres: hard science fiction, techno-thriller, action.
Themes: Mars, space exploration, space colonisation, extraterrestrial life, free will delusion, anti-heroine, artificial intelligence.
Publication: 2012-2020

> Your journey continues (in Italian) on www.desertorosso.net! <

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Per caso (By Chance)

Conosci il tuo nemico.

Su Thalas, la guerra tra la colonia umana e la specie autoctona delle sirene ha raggiunto un punto di stallo. Ridotte in numero a causa della superiorità tecnologica di quelli che definiscono invasori, le creature aliene si sono rifugiate nell’arcipelago TX, in una remota regione dell’unico enorme oceano che avvolge il pianeta, ma non hanno smesso di combattere.
Tra gli ufficiali del Corpo della Difesa, specializzato nello sventare gli attacchi terroristici delle sirene, c’è un medico da tutti conosciuto con il nome di battaglia Doc. Questi, di ritorno insieme alla sua partner da una ricognizione in una delle isole appartenenti al dominio sirenico, si imbatte per caso nel relitto della Chance, una nave interstellare adibita al trasporto di nuovi colonizzatori, scomparsa in circostanze misteriose diversi decenni prima.
L’indagine per rivelare gli eventi che hanno segnato il drammatico destino dell’equipaggio e dei passeggeri della Chance spingerà Doc a conoscere per la prima volta da vicino il suo nemico e a tentare di comprenderlo, fino a confrontarsi con lui e a trovare dei punti in comune.
Ma due nemici potranno mai fidarsi completamente l’uno dell’altro?

Genres: science fiction (space opera), thriller, action.
Themes: alien planet, space colonisation, subspace tunnel, interstellar travel, hostile aliens.
Publication: 2015

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Self-publishing lab. Il mestiere dell’autoeditore

Stai scrivendo un libro?
O magari lo hai già scritto e vorresti farlo arrivare ai lettori?
E se diventassi tu l’editore del tuo libro?

L’autoeditoria (self-publishing) è un modello editoriale in cui la figura dell’autore e quella dell’editore coincidono.
L’autoeditore (self-publisher), infatti, gestisce tutte le fasi di realizzazione di un prodotto editoriale dalla sua ideazione iniziale fino alla sua promozione nel mercato, anche attraverso la collaborazione con professionisti del settore. Per questo motivo il mestiere dell’autoeditore racchiude in sé tre ruoli: autore, editore e imprenditore.
Se stai pensando di diventare un autoeditore, se lo sei già, ma sai di avere ancora qualcosa da imparare (perché c’è sempre qualcosa da imparare), o se semplicemente, anche solo per curiosità, vuoi conoscere questo mestiere, questo è il libro che fa per te.

Book based on the workshop “Laboratorio di self-publishing nei sistemi multimediali” taught at Insubria University (Varese, Italy).

Genre: non-fiction, manual/course of self-publishing.
Themes: writing, editing, publishing, self-production, ebook, paperback, book promotion, marketing, advertising, publishing industry, publishing platforms, university workshop.
Publication: 2020

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OTHER WORKS IN ENGLISH

Poems

Fallin’ Hopes, included in The Sound Of Poetry (audiobook), 2002, and in the anthology of Poetry.com, USA, 2002.
Click here to read it.

You Hurt Me, included in the anthology of Noblehouse, UK, 2003.
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Limbo, included in the anthology of Poetry.com, USA, 2004.
Click here to read it.

Wind, included in the anthology Who’s who in poetry.com, USA, 2004.

Waiting For Me, included in The Sound Of Poetry (audiobook), USA, 2004, in the anthology The Best Poems and Poets of 2004, USA, 2004, and in the anthology Eternal Portraits Series, USA, 2005.
Click here to read it.

No Regret, included in the anthology The Best Poems and Poets of 2005, USA, 2005.

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Song lyrics

Dreaming, music and voice by Dario Tinucci, 2004.
Click here to read the lyrics.

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