Il Grande Sogno - Una Storia Vera (Investigatore Emmett Kowalski, #1)

The first book of the “Detective Emmett Kowalski” series.
Los Angeles 1946. Rude and young detective Emmett Kowalski, a man with an ambigous past, has just closed and investigation on behalf of an elderly antique dealer. But he must start again his search when one evening a shady man with the same name of a famous Hollywood actress calls on him at his office.
Among encounters with unusual types, people who are not what they seem to be, thefts, vanished persons, suspicious deaths and seductive “femmes fatales”, the private investigator begins the quest of a mysterious object that each of the characters wants to obtain at any cost.
Not the typical hard-boiled novel, rather an experiment which combines the traditional narrative with the Hollywood movies scripts of that era, revisited in a modern and unconventional tone.

The Big Dream – A True Story. A night walk through L.A. old neighborhoods now almost completely gone. Like a dream when you wake, it leaves traces of seductive recollections dissolving into the cold morning light; opaque memories of a past experience.

In the same series: ““Duplice Inganno” (Double Deceit) © 2021 and “L’ultimo Miraggio” (The Last Mirage) © 2022.
Fabio Romolo is also author of “Rade nuvole e delitti” (Summer of Death) and the Golden Ring series: “How the Aliens Occupied the State” (“Come gli Alieni Occuparono lo Stato”) and “Something in the water” (“Qualcosa nell’acqua”).