# Young Beasts at Play

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- Book: [Young Beasts at Play](https://www.bookquiver.com/davide-longo/young-beasts-at-play) ([Young Beasts at Play.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/davide-longo/young-beasts-at-play.md))
- Authors: [Davide Longo](https://www.bookquiver.com/davide-longo)
- Publisher: Maclehose Press
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-2940-822-5
- Published: 2022-04-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

" Northern Italy's answer to Inspector Montalbano" Alessandro Baricco September 2008. Commissario Arcadipane arrives at the scene of a macabre discovery: the bones of twelve men and women buried in the countryside near Torino. By the next morning, a task force specialising in mass graves from WWII is already in place. But something doesn't feel right: one of the femurs shows signs of an operation that couldn't have taken place before the seventies. Suspecting a cover-up, Arcadipane launches his own investigation, enlisting his old mentor, Corso Bramard, long retired, and Isa, a young officer still haunted by the unexplained death of her father. These mismatched allies - one at last at peace, one jaded to the point of breakdown and one under a permanent disciplinary cloud - will unveil a cruel political conspiracy that someone wants covered up for the second time. Translated from the Italian by Silvester Mazzarella