{ "item_title" : "The Restorer of Light", "item_author" : [" Raffaele Piscitelli "], "item_description" : "The Restorer of LightPhotographs do not forget. The truth cannot stay in the shadows.London, 1912 - Gothic Thriller - Historical Crime - MysteryLondon, 1912. A burned photograph is the only evidence of a murder.And inside that photograph, in the background no one has looked at, stands a man who already knows everything.Gabriel Ashcroft is the finest photographic restorer in England. When Scotland Yard cannot read a damaged image, they call him. He is not a detective - he is a craftsman. He observes, reconstructs, enlarges. He finds the truth that time has almost erased.When Inspector Collins brings him a nearly destroyed photograph connected to the mysterious death of a woman in Kensington, Gabriel sets to work. What he finds in the background of the image will change him forever: a motionless silhouette beyond a window, not looking at the photographer. Looking at the victim. Always wearing the same dark gloves.The investigation expands. Six photographs, six deaths, six clocks stopped at the same hour. Then forty-seven. Then thirty years of invisible signature in every image, in every photographic studio in London, in every scene no one had ever considered a crime.Beside Gabriel is Daniel - thirteen years old, an orphan, extraordinary eyes. Between them grows something neither yet knows how to name. And in the background, gentle and calm in the way only people who have nothing left to fear can be, stands an elderly retired restorer Gabriel has known all his life.The killer's name is written in every photograph. One only needs to know where to look. Genre and comparablesFor readers of Arthur Conan Doyle, Patricia Cornwell and Carlos Ruiz Zafón. A gothic thriller set in Edwardian London, with photography as the investigative tool and memory as the central theme.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/474/9798184743066_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "9.00", "online_price" : "9.00", "our_price" : "9.00", "club_price" : "9.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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