Which is more effective: force or persuasion?

It is a new moving delivery that gathers the surprising palpitation of a web of human passions on which ride —at a pace, trot and gallop— dusty consciences that seek catharsis through listening to their story.

This novel of the domestic noir genre, presents a constant questioning to find out what is better to obtain a result: force or persuasion.

All this takes us on board the throbbing human passions that navigate the dark watersof corruption of illegal dumping.

The discovery of Cady Kalme’s past and a murder lead James into the tempestuous ocean of the mafias.

Synopsis

Arturo Daussà usually invites us in his novels to sail through a sea full of concerns, an ocean of interesting reading; simple, but not exempt of details, and that, at the end, forces us to ask ourselves questions about the corruptions of our society that are inevitably uncovered in each of his stories. 

In The Surprising Cabin we witness the life journey of James Palmer, an ex-cop and private detective from Chicago who, faced with the existential storm of his forties and abandoned by his former girlfriend, questions everything he has considered essential in his life: his romantic relationships, the value of morality, justice, ethics and the law, and the hitherto unquestionable subjection to the established rules that keeps him in constant disagreement with his partner, Fabio Petrini.

To meditate and find answers to his questions, James travels to Indian River to stay in a cabin on the shores of Burt Lake and spend a few days fishing. There, among the community that inhabits this small town, he meets Cady Kalme, a beautiful and enigmatic woman who will change his life.

Meanwhile, Battista Mancini, a journalist living in Italy and a close friend of Fabio Petrini, is murdered in Milan just a few days after he and Fabio met in this Italian city in connection with an investigation concerning Alex Vasilin, a Russian client of Fabio’s, and his possible relationship with the Bratva.

A little later, in Ciudad Juárez, Manuel Mateos, a small-time drug dealer who is the cousin of Lupe Rodríguez, ex-wife of Frank Becker, the owner of the cabin where James Palmer is staying, is murdered…

Thus, little by little, The Surprising Cabin leads us through human passions and contradictions: finding love, truth, the yearning for justice; and, as an inseparable counterpoint, the dark waters of corruption, boundless ambition, money laundering, illegal dumping, drug trafficking and, in general, through the tempestuous ocean of the mafias.

You can read the first chapter of The Surprising Cabin or buy the book.

My name is Arturo Daussà,
and I write to discover hidden realities to my readers.