About The Venetian Lawyer: Victorio Falcone Stories
Venice is sinking. This is not a metaphor—it’s geological fact. A few millimeters every year. People don’t notice because the sinking is slow, like everything that truly matters. In Venice, truth doesn’t matter—only what you can prove in court.
Victorio Falcone is a lawyer who doesn’t believe in truth—but in narratives that hold up. But when young sculptor Marco Bellini is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Victorio finds himself defending a man who might actually be innocent.
The evidence doesn’t add up. Witness testimonies contradict each other. And someone is watching from the shadows.
The Venetian Lawyer is a philosophical thriller that explores the paradoxes of modern that law and morality aren’t the same thing, that bureaucracy protects both the innocent and the guilty, that sometimes doing the right thing means breaking the rules. It’s a story about how we change without noticing, how the past haunts the present, and how in Venice—where every route is circular—the search for truth is never straightforward.
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Author Bio:
Viktor Illovszky is a Hungarian author who interprets the crime genre in his own distinctive way, blending intricate psychological tension with a profound philosophical edge. His thrillers go beyond the simple questions of guilt and innocence, focusing instead on the inner workings of systems and their ethical paradoxes.
His debut novel, The Venetian Lawyer: Victorio Falcone Stories, examines the morality of modern law in Venice.
The book reached the top of Dibook’s annual sales chart in Hungary.
The author’s stories are defined by themes of slow, inevitable change, the search for identity, and the timeless tension between morality and law.
He currently lives in Budapest, and when he is not conducting legal research for his next novel, he is studying European history or savoring the taste of a good Italian espresso.