Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli – Syndrome @ZooLoosBT @ladyanakina #Syndrome #TheDetectiveEricShawTrilogy #zooloosbooktours #SharonBTB

I’m jumping with joy to say it’s my turn to post my review for Syndrome by Rita Carla Francesca Monticellias part of the book tour. Many thanks to ZooLoo’s Book Tours and Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli for the gifted ebook to join in the tour.

What is the difference between dedication and obsession?

While investigating the murder of two known offenders with connections to a notorious, recently escaped London drug trafficker, the Scotland Yard forensic team headed by DCI Eric Shaw becomes involved in a child abuse case. A nurse had accused a mother of a series of violent, feverish attacks on her ten-year-old son, Jimmy. The woman would exasperate the condition of her child to draw the attention and compassion of health workers at the hospital.

Eric learned of this accusation by chance because he is dating Catherine Foulger, the paediatrician looking after the child. She is an old flame, and he is seeing her again in the hope of putting some order back in his life after discovering the identity of the serial killer nicknamed Black Death.

But this is a relationship his former partner Adele Pennington, still working as an investigator in Forensic Services, has not really accepted.

DCI Eric Shaw returns.

A book I couldn’t wait to begin! Syndrome is book 2 in the Detective Eric Shaw series. I was hoping it would live up to the standard that Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli set with The Mentor. Newsflash! Yes, it did!

We are back with Detective Eric Shaw. Syndrome sees him investigating a child abuse case that isn’t what it first appears. He also has women issues, with his ex, Adele Pennington, an investigating forensic officer not really impressed with his current choice of partner. Eric Shaw definitely has plenty going on in this instalment!

Another fast-paced and gripping story that had me captivated. Between the realistic characters and the action, I just didn’t want to put my Kindle down for any length of time.

It was good to be back with Eric Shaw even though I hadn’t long finished The Mentor. The author has kept the development of the characters going, and just as I said in my review of the first book, it makes them more human. We see different sides to Adele in this book, and it makes for an interesting read.

Syndrome is as twisty and action filled as I expected, if not more. Another book that made me feel like my heart was in my mouth at times. This is a series that gets better as it goes on. I like getting to know everyone and realising there is always more to learn about them. This is a series that is translated from Italian into English. I am grateful that the author decided to pu list these books into English. I would have missed out on a cracking series!

If you enjoy a fast-moving crime thriller series. I highly recommend trying the Detective Eric Shaw series.

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Author Bio

Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli is an Italian science fiction and thriller author.
She has lived in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) since 1993, earning a degree in biology and working as a writer, scientific and literary translator, and freelance web copywriter. In the past she also worked as researcher, tutor and professor’s assistant in the field of ecology at ‘Dipartimento di Biologia Animale ed Ecologia’ of the University of Cagliari.
She has written original fiction since 2009.
In 2012-2013 she wrote and published a hard science fiction series set on Mars and titled Deserto rosso. The whole Deserto rosso series was also published as omnibus in December 2013 and hit No. 1 on the Italian Kindle Store in November 2014.
Deserto rosso was published in English, with the title Red Desert, between 2014 and 2015.
It includes the following books: Red Desert – Point of No Return, Red Desert – People of Mars, Red Desert – Invisible Enemy, and Red Desert – Back Home. She also authored three crime thrillers in the Detective Eric Shaw Trilogy – The Mentor (Il mentore, 2014), Syndrome (Sindrome, 2016), and Beyond the Limit (Oltre il limite, 2017) –, an action thriller titled Kindred Intentions (Affinità d’intenti, 2015), five more science fiction novels – L’isola di Gaia (2014), Per caso (2015), Ophir. Codice vivente (2016), Sirius. In caduta libera (2018), and Nave stellare Aurora (2020) – and a non-fiction book titled Self-publishing lab. Il mestiere dell’autoeditore (2020).
Her crime thriller The Mentor was first published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2015 and became an international bestseller hitting No. 1 on the Kindle Store in USA, UK, and Australia in October 2015.
This is a new edition of The Mentor (published in November 2022). The other two books in the trilogy, Syndrome and Beyond the Limit, are expected in 2023.
She’s also a podcaster at FantascientifiCast, an Italian podcast about science fiction, an Italian Representative of Mars Initiative, and a member of the International Thriller Writers organization.
She’s often a guest both in Italy and abroad during book fairs, including Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino (Turin Book Fair) and Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair), local publishing events as well as university conferences, where she gives speeches about self-publishing and genre fiction writing. She has also taught a class on self-publishing at the University of Insubria (Varese, Italy) since 2016.
Her books have been reviewed or recommended by national magazines and newspapers such as Wired Italia, Tom’s Hardware Italia, La Repubblica, Tiscali News and Global Science (magazine of the Italian Space Agency).
As a science fiction and Star Wars fan, she is known in the Italian online community by her nickname, Anakina, which has become the name of her imprint.

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