I Veri — The True Ones
Some silences take a generation to break.
Sicily, 1873. When seventeen-year-old Giovanna Galbo finds her father murdered on the church bench at dawn — a black river stone set in each open palm — the whole town understands the message and no one dares repeat it. What she builds in answer, patiently and invisibly over thirty years, becomes something Sicily has no name for and no defence against: I Veri, the True Ones, who leave a white stone where the powerful leave a black one.
Spanning three decades and two continents — from the factor houses of Palermo to the immigrant streets of New York — the I Veri series is historical crime saga at its most patient and most human: about grief turned into resolve, about a mother and daughter bound to a reckoning that will outlast them both, and about the slow architecture of justice.
Read in order
- Book One — The Gabellotto’s Daughter (launching 22 August 2026 — eBook preorder now)
- Book Two — The Last Name (coming)
Written as DM Matthews · Cassaro Publishing.
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