Lucia Perrucci grew up in the Puglia countryside, among olive groves and cats. She has always been in love with stories, studying literature in Bologna and screenwriting at the Giffoni Film Festival masterclasses. Today she writes and teaches at school. In 2022, she made her debut for Mondadori with La prodigiosa macchina cattura anime di Cassandra Apollinaire (Cassandra Apollinaire’s Prodigious Soul-Capturing Machine), which quickly became an international success.
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Mysteries of Summer
Six mysteries. One season where mystery never takes a break. Six original summer stories by Italian acclaimed authors. A girl haunted by a ghost who might be herself. A cursed necklace passed from hand to hand. A school trip gone terrifyingly wrong… Each tale is a standalone mystery—spine-chilling, elegant, or surreal—set in the inescapable heat of the Italian summer. A fresh,…
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The Houses of the Dead Have No Stairs
A bold, gripping novel about memory, grief, and the invisible line between the living and the lost. Since the fire that destroyed part of her grandmother’s house, nothing in Dodo’s life has felt right. No one talks about what really happened that night – or what Dodo saw. Her grandmother barely speaks, and the silence around the past grows heavier…
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Cassandra Apollinaire’s Prodigious Soul-Capturing Machine
Three siblings, a race against time among the streets of Paris, coded messages, ancient daguerreotypes, centuries-old secret circles and a disturbing mystery: can photographic film preserve a soul? France, 1971. It’s the 13th of October when a postman rings the Sélavy family’s door, causing all hell to break loose: the delivery is for Louis, René’s twin, who died in an…
