Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Hi, I’m Cesario Picca, I was born and bred in Salento (South Italy) thanks to my parents Francesco and Antonia. For 25 years I worked as a crime and judicial reporter so it was very simple to starting write thrillers. In my books, like Broken Lives and Murder in the Tremiti Isles, there are many real stories crossed with fantasy. I’ve written four thrillers and I’m finishing my fifth.
The main character of my thrillers is a rough and rational man, talkative, charismatic, ready to savor every moment of life as if it was the last. Nicknamed Saru (the nickname that is given in Salento to those named like him), the reporter Rosario Santacroce covers the city’s crime beat. As often happens, occasionally work also follows him on holidays because a real reporter is destined (almost) never to unplug. And that is probably why he gets entangled in murders.
Maybe, between Saru Santacroce and me there are many points in common, we love life and we think life is a gift and we have to taste this present also if sometimes could be difficult. We love footing and untill now we have run 19 marathons. A good way, in our opinion, to relax and feel good and finding new ideas for thrillers.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My last thriller is Broken Lives dedicated to victims of abuse. I love the Tv series Criminal Mind’s and so I’ve written a psychological thriller. Is set in London and the Scotland Yard detective Sonny D’Amato must stop a serial killer. A monster from the past reemerges in the present destroying the life of three young students and engaging in a fight against time with the promising Scotland Yard detective, Sonny D’Amato, in charge of solving the difficult case. The suffering of someone who as a child doesn’t know about love but suffers only abuse can turn into the worst nightmare when it triggers that dangerous stress factor that makes anger push a person to cross the hellish threshold of no return. Thanks to the precious help of the coroner July Pence, the detective digs in the past in search of the logical thread that will allow him to solve the intricate enigma. He will most likely get the promotion that he feels he deserves, but without being able to rejoice. In fact, his soul will be hostage to the pain emanating from this sad inquiry that will make him lose sight of the difference between the victim and the executioner. Because, as Alexandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, “the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being”. Set in London, Broken lives, the new thriller by Cesario Picca, sees once again the reporter from Salento Rosario Saru Santacroce looking for news to inform the readers about these crimes which are worrying a city already wracked by terrorist attacks.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
No, I usually start writing when I feel a story and I don’t stop.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
For 25 years I worked as a crime and judicial reporter so it was very simple to starting write thrillers. In my books, like Broken Lives and Murder in the Tremiti Isles, there are many real stories crossed with fantasy.
What are you working on now?
I’m finishing a thriller about Freemasonry. It’s in Italian and so I’ll need someone to translate it.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I promote my thrillers using social media and my website always thinking about new ideas. But I think readers are the right unit of measure of our talent.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
We must always believe in our ideas giving them the right form and expression
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I think there isn’t the best advice.
What are you reading now?
The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
What’s next for you as a writer?
I hope to continue amusing people who read my stories
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
I usually read classics and Bible but also thriller writers.
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