Ten Little Tenants
One disturbing apartment building,ten murders,one special challenge for Inspector Asgren.
While the city seems to be plunging into a nightmare of continual blackouts and tremors, a murder takes place in Ash Building, a sinister apartment building in the extreme outskirts of the city. Unusually, the famous detective inspector Julius Asgren – the star of the city police force – is called in to conduct the investigation. But what’s so special about this murder, that it requires the attention of such a renowned police officer? Soon Inspector Asgren, along with the reader, will discover that nothing is normal in this building, starting with the tenants, who are dying like flies. A spiral of death that is turning into the most infernal case of Asgren’s long career.
- An intense and unique atmosphere, making this the first ever noir for kids.
- Illustrations by Dalla Fontana: full of mystery, but also an irresistible streak of black humour.
- Two powerful plot twists that come together in a totally unexpected finale.
Andrea Dalla Fontana works with all aspects of graphics, from food packaging to social campaigns. His passion for illustration led him to collaborate with Book on a Tree. In October 2018, the first two volumes of the series The Fetid Four (Piemme) were released, for which he took care of the illustrations and graphic project. He appears every Wednesday in the pages of the La Stampa newspaper with a humorous cartoon.
Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.
Alessandro Gatti was born in 1975. As a young man, he studied a lot of philosophy but then he thought it was best to start writing novels for children. He is the author of the Klincus Corteccia books (Mondadori), which have just been adapted into a cartoon series. Along with Pierdomenico Baccalario and Lucia Vaccarino, he is also the author of the novels in the Sherlock, Lupin & Io (Sherlock, Lupin & Me) series, Piemme, translated into several languages. For a few years he has also been a comic book writer for Disney.
