Naples. Presentation of the book: Primo Scoop, a whodunit with an ISF from Modena strangled in Naples

Rogiosi Publisher returns to meet its audience with the review "Books under the stars", scheduled for Tuesday 22 and Monday 28 June, at 18.30, at Elena bathroom, in via Posillipo 14. To participate in the event, the reservation, to be carried out on the website www.rogiosi.it.

On Tuesday 22 June the books "Aphonia diurna" by Alessandra Callegari, "The virus of corruption" by Claudio Mazzarese Fardella Mungivera will be presented, “First scoopby Leandro Del Gaudio and "Fortunato, History of the last Neapolitan tarallaro" by Francesca Saturnino.

Riformista – 21 giugno 2021

Leandro Del Gaudio's first scoop 

A scientific informant from Modena strangled in a bed and breakfast in Mergellina, a career Neapolitan doctor, a chief physician from Bologna ready to assume an important public office. And two journalists - he from Naples, she from Modena - who confront each other, collide, compete and collaborate in the resolution of the Neapolitan mystery.

Year 2020, full Covid emergency, Italy realizes the importance of training a valid category of doctors, when a plot that began thirty years earlier, at the time of the Italia Novanta World Cup, ends. And it is the traces left by the murderer - in a narcissistic, sophisticated way - inside the room of the b&b, which bring attention back to the choices, missteps and crimes committed by the novel's protagonists at the time of accessing the medical profession.

"Magical nights, chasing a goal"... then Caniggia's goal which becomes the symbol of a dream interrupted at the most beautiful moment, a scene that bursts into the story as the classic decisive turning point, which allows the two journalist-detectives to end the hunt for their First scoop.

A story that spans a thirty-year period, from the tapes recorded on cassettes by university students to the social channels used by the two journalists to weave together their life experience: between an intimate relationship and a desire for professional affirmation, between the dream of a normal life and the coveted individual redemption.

Two distant eras - 1990 and 2020 - which find a point of contact in Primo scoop, a novel that allows the author to return to themes dear to his professional training: the difference between judicial truth and factual reality, the impossibility of enclosing in a file all the nuances that color the rhythm of a journalistic investigation.

Crime and judicial reporter for «Il Mattino», awarded in 2011 by the Campania Region for his commitment in the field as an anti-Camorra journalist, Del Gaudio builds pages of emotional impact, with a language that forgets good manners to tell a story probable, conceived as a thriller and constructed as a fiction script.