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The night is about to give way to yet another scorching day in the summer of Emilia when Bruno Muta, former fashion prodigy, is found brutally murdered in his home garage. The designer, recently released from prison after a conviction for financial fraud, lived alone with no external contacts. However, some details at the crime scene lead the police to deduce that he knew his killer. This particular detail cannot help but shake the Montecristo Club, the secret mutual aid society among former inmates that Ares Malerba, a long-time cellmate of Muta, was about to join. Now Malerba is missing, having escaped from semi-liberty at the same time as the crime. Knowing the investigators’ relentlessness against anyone who has ever committed a crime, regardless of whether it has already been served and redeemed, the Club fears that Ares will end up at the top of the suspect list. An investigation outside the law is urgently needed, entrusted to the quirky duo that already solved the Ferrante case: Arno Maletti, a part-time hacker, and Lans Iula, with a past as a painter and bank robber. Will the two friends manage to solve the murder and, more importantly, their own troubles and mysteries?