In "Il suggeritore" what was the scariest moment for you ?
«No… » ripeté la bambina con calma. «Lui lo chiamava Frankie.»
Jokes aside, I don’t remember the book very well because I read it like 7-8 years ago, but I found particularly scary the idea of somebody able to manipulate people’s unconscious to make them commit murders, and also the way the girls were snatched. (fun story: at the time, I used to go to school alone, by bike. When I read the book it was autumn, just before switching to daylight saving time, so when I got out in the morning it was still dark. I have to admit that those mornings weren’t fun…)
Actually, I think the whole book is scary, because I find Carrisi a very talented narrator, he manages to create an atmosphere that is very unsettling, it made me feel somehow uneasy for the whole book.
But that ending… something that I usually find in thrillers is that, for how scary they might be, when everything is solved you can breathe again, and push everything behind you. That book looked like that, too. And then… that line. And suddenly you’re reconsidering everything and it’s one hundred times scarier.