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Title: No Fava Beans, but plenty of Chianti
Review: I'd been looking forward to this book since THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and was enormously disappointed. No cannibalism. No Clarice Starling. Plenty of the Italy that we had all been expecting since hearing that the author was attending the trial of some Italian serial killer, though. So where was Hannibal Lector? Well, in a very intrigueing and disturbing fashion the author has hidden him in the text. At first I was disappointed and then I realised that this was literary detective story as much as it is a horror story. Which one of these characters is Hannibal Lector, disguised and under a new identity? And what is he going to do? Understanding that - and no, I'm not going to give it away - turned it into a very interesting book indeed. Was it worth waiting over ten years for? I don't know. BUt as always this talented author has given us a lot to think about.
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