The Witch of Napoli (Michael Schmicker)

The Witch of Napoli

Michael Schmicker

In the year 1899, Tommasso is a photographer that is working for his uncle, earning very little money. He decides to introduce himself to the editor of the local newspaper and when he gets the job, his first assignment is to followed Alesandra Poverelli.

Alessandra Poverelli is a mentalist that appears to have the power to move things with her mind and to talk with the dead. One day, Tommasso gets the picture of Alessandra making a table float and both their lives change forever.

Camillo Lombardi, a psychiatrist, decides to investigate Alessandra and when he becomes a witness of the supernatural that surrounds her, he plans to make a tour around Europe showing and analysing Alessandra.

However, Nigel Huxley, an English supernatural detective, believes Alessandra is a fraud. Determined to unfold her tricks, he would follow the tour trying to find theright situation to expose her.

A novel full of twists and interesting characters, the reader becomes engulfed by the fight between beliefs and ideas, rationality and superstition, the idea that behind every magic trick  truth is waiting for us.

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