James Sturz reads from Sasso

“As this teasing, literate thriller gets underway, a team of sunstruck foreign investigators … arrives in the hill town of Mancanzano in rural southern Italy, where a gruesome mystery is unfolding…. What haunts us after the mystery is solved is the novel’s potent evocation of life in this sun-bleached living purgatory, passed over by time and hope, and the voice of the narrator, a cultural anthropologist whose detachment starts to crumble as he falls into the grip of Mancanzano’s fierce enchantment.”

— Boston Globe

“Verba volant, scripta manent.”