Broken Truths: A Novel

by Alessandro Robecchi, Gregory Conti (Translator)

A mysterious murder in present-day Milan intertwines with a cold case from the 1940s in this thrilling novel about film, freedom, censorship, and the persistent threat of fascism.

An acclaimed director, Manlio Parrini, decides to return behind the camera. Having abandoned cinema at the height of his success because he found the industry to be “a place without truth,” he now, in his 70s, has a special story in a film about Augusto De Angelis, a pioneer of Italian crime fiction in the 1930s. The violent death of De Angelis remains, for Parrini, an unsolved case marked by the stench of injustice and blind fascist censorship, a story that needs to be told now more than ever.

Yet just as Parrini finds a producer for his project and begins writing the screenplay with his friend and accomplice Sara De Viesti, another mystery bursts into his the murder of the elderly widow Bastoni, who owns the villa next door to his.

Kindle Edition

Expected publication May 19, 2026

About the author

Alessandro Robecchi (Milano, 16 giugno 1960) è un giornalista, autore televisivo e scrittore italiano. L'esordio nella narrativa risale al 2014, con il noir Questa non è una canzone d'amore (Sellerio, 2014), giunto alla sesta edizione e tradotto nel 2018 in Spagna (Ediciones Salamandra). Protagonista del romanzo e di quelli successivi è Carlo Monterossi, un ex autore televisivo, nauseato dalla televisione, che si trasforma in detective.