Vera Buck comes to GO for the signing of Buio (Giunti), her latest thriller — a novel that will keep you glued to the pages with its unforgettable characters, breathtaking setting, and haunting atmosphere.

The book:

A house for one euro: for Tilda, a young German woman of Italian origin, it feels like an incredible stroke of luck. She wants to cut ties with her previous life, and a villa in Sardinia seems perfect. Botigalli is every restoration-loving architect’s dream: an abandoned village perched high in the mountains of Barbagia, around fifty houses and a single road leading to a picturesque church.

It also represents a radical change — manual labor, solitude, and good food.

But the idyll of this place suspended in time does not last long. The village, which at first seemed completely deserted, begins to stir in unsettling ways: strange noises, objects moved from their places, and then a terrible secret dating back to the summer of 1982 — the year of the World Cup and the Italy–Germany final — when a shooting left all its inhabitants dead.

No one truly knows what happened that day, and the only survivor, the elderly Silvio, stubbornly refuses to speak, even though a journalist visits him every Sunday trying to persuade him to tell his tragic story. And Tilda, despite herself, will suddenly find herself pulled into it.

Bringing light into the darkness of those years will be the only way to get out… unharmed. Because in this harsh and isolated land, terrible things have happened — and are still happening.

The author:

Vera Buck is a German author. She studied journalism, literature, and screenwriting in Europe and Hawaii, and worked as a freelance writer in Zurich.

Bambini lupo, published in Italy by Giunti in 2024, marked her debut in the thriller genre and was both a critical and commercial success in Germany. She has also published La casa sull'albero (2025) and Buio (2026) with Giunti.