No one is coming to get you

Mystery
Thriller

A piece of paper inside a crack in the wall.
A message from someone who shouldn’t exist.
What if it’s already too late to escape?

During the class trip to the archaeological site of Herculaneum, Calista – known as Cali – happens to find a piece of paper inside a crack in the wall. A message is written on it in clumsy handwriting: a request for help, a scream of loneliness. Cali doesn’t know how to find the writer, so she puts her reply in the crack between the tiles. This is the beginning
of an exchange of thoughts with someone who always seems to be with her, behind the walls, in her room, at school… And as Cali’s life is intertwines with that of her mysterious
interlocutor, strange and dangerous things start happening. While the messages were conspiratorial and intriguing at first, Calista soon starts to want to be free of this increasingly disturbing presence… until a terrible event presents her with the most difficult choice of all.

  • A paranormal psychological thriller where reality and nightmare blur as the mystery
    deepens.
  • A crescendo of tension and fear, pulling the reader into paranoia and doubt.
  • Short books with fast-paced, easy-to-read chapters.
Publisher: Mondadori
Target: 12+
Year: 2025
Author
Manlio Castagna

A screenwriter, director, writer and film critic, Manlio Castagna has also been involved in the artistic direction of the Giffoni Film Festival for more than 20 years. He made his debut in children’s fiction in 2018 with the bestselling Petrademone trilogy (Mondadori), which has been translated into several languages. Since then, he has explored many different genres: from historical fantasy with La notte delle malombre (The Night of the Malombre) and Draconis Chronicon, to horror with Goodwill and Le Belve (The Beasts), passing through the “story” of cinema with the manual 116 film da vedere prima dei 16 anni (116 Films To See Before You’re 16) and the novel Dedalo & Dharma, up to social noir with Barriera (all for the Mondadori group). La reincarnazione delle sorelle Klun (The Reincarnation of the Klun Sisters) and Prova a non dormire (Try Not to Sleep) are his adult fiction books. In 2022, he made his film debut as a director and screenwriter with “Il viaggio degli eroi”, produced by Rai Cinema and rewarded with record audience numbers on Rai1.

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