The perfect crime is the one nobody can admit happened.
Mr Sunday - Pride
The architect of the perfect crime. Calm, meticulous and ruthlessly controlling, Mr Sunday has assembled six professional criminals to steal $70 million from a bank whose secretive customer cannot report the theft. Money is almost secondary to him. What Sunday really wants is proof that his intellect can design a crime so flawless that even its victims must pretend it never happened. His greatest strength is his absolute confidence in his own plan. It may also be his greatest weakness
A veteran Roman detective with little patience for convenient answers and even less for people telling him where not to look. Dry, observant and stubbornly suspicious, Carbone becomes fascinated by a $70 million robbery that officially never happened. With no complainant, no acknowledged victim and his superiors urging him to forget the whole affair, Carbone sees precisely what everyone else would rather ignore: the outline of a crime hidden inside the silence.
Inspector Vito Carbone
Sergeant Carmel Lombardo
Carbone's sharp-witted and quietly formidable partner, Sergeant Carmel Lombardo possesses the rare ability to match her inspector's suspicion while keeping his more eccentric instincts somewhere near reality. Technically adept, observant and armed with a wonderfully dry sense of humour, she is rarely impressed by authority or elaborate excuses. Where Carbone follows instinct, Lombardo digs for evidence, making her the perfect partner for investigating a crime everyone insists never happened.
The Perfect Crime
Seven deadly sins. Seven professional thieves. Seventy million dollars.
Mr Sunday has designed the perfect crime.
He assembles six criminals, each chosen for a particular talent and a particular weakness: greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth. Together with Sunday's pride, they form a team capable of stealing $70 million from a secretive Roman bank.
The plan is meticulous. The victim cannot complain. The bank cannot admit the money existed. And if everything goes according to plan, there will be no crime for the police to investigate.
There is just one problem.
Inspector Vito Carbone doesn't believe in perfect crimes.
And when somebody boasts online about a robbery that officially never happened, Carbone and Sergeant Carmel Lombardo begin asking precisely the questions nobody wants answered.
The perfect crime has been committed.
Now all Mr Sunday has to do is get away with it.
Mr Monday - Greed
A financial criminal who understands money not as wealth, but as a system waiting to be manipulated. Polished, calculating and relentlessly acquisitive, Mr Monday can find opportunities hidden inside ledgers, transfers and banking procedures that others never notice. He has already stolen millions without guns, masks or broken vaults. For Monday, however, there is no such thing as enough. Every fortune merely proves that he should have demanded more.
Mr Tuesday - Wrath
The muscle of the operation, although Mr Tuesday considers brute force the tool of an amateur. He specialises in people: guards, managers and anyone whose fear can be turned against them. Controlled, intimidating and always dangerous, Tuesday understands that the threat of violence is often more effective than violence itself. He doesn't lose his temper. He makes other people lose theirs, then uses their fear and anger to make them behave exactly as he wants.
Mr Wednesday - Envy
A master of impersonation who doesn't disappear into the background, Mr Wednesday becomes someone people expect to see. Auditors, couriers, wealthy representatives, even grieving relatives, he can borrow identities and wear them convincingly enough to open almost any door. But beneath the professional disguise lies envy. Wednesday doesn't simply want another man's wealth. He wants his name, his privileges, his view, and the chance to discover whether the world treats him differently when he stands in another man's shoes.
Mr Thursday - Lust
A professional seducer who understands that desire can open doors no lockpick ever could. Charming, perceptive and effortlessly persuasive, Mr Thursday discovers what people desperately want to believe and makes himself part of the fantasy. Access cards, passwords and secrets are surrendered willingly by people grateful simply to feel important. Thursday doesn't want love. He wants to be wanted, chosen and remembered, especially by those who should have known better.
Mr Friday - Gluttony
A thief with an appetite for everything life offers, Mr Friday specialises in exploiting the movement of goods through kitchens, warehouses, cellars and service corridors. Beneath the pastries, crumbs and apparent excess lies a sharp logistical mind that sees routes, loads and opportunities others overlook. Friday believes the world exists to be consumed. Food, wine, possessions or millions in stolen money, abundance is simply something waiting for him to acquire.
Mr Saturday - Sloth
A criminal who has transformed doing nothing into a professional skill. Clever, watchful and profoundly reluctant to exert himself, Mr Saturday understands that modern systems fail when everyone has a reason to wait for somebody else. He weaponises bureaucracy, delay and uncertainty until guards stop investigating and managers stop taking responsibility. Saturday doesn't dream of power or admiration. He simply wants enough money to retire somewhere nobody can ever ask him to do anything again.
REVIEWS
★★★★★
"A dark, creative, and entertaining thriller with an unexpected twist."
★★★★
"I have read and enjoyed - in a slightly different way to usual book enjoyment - all of Tom Kane's noir mystery series so far. I have to say that, although the stories are all on different subjects, they create the air of mystery beyond belief - quite chilling in their own individual ways, and quite impossible to put down, I did begin to feel a sense on déja vu in the dialogue. Clever responses to lines spoken by another character, or in response to a situation. Of course, this may well be the idea - that nothing is ever as straightforward or clear as it at first appears. In any case, this book, like the others, is very cleverly written and leaves me with a sense of being witness to something extraordinary and inexplicable."
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