So Mauro and his father had helped Marisa to her feet, sat her in their car, and taken her home. Maresciallo Nardulli was shocked to hear that the dead girl was Stelvio Ansaldo’s daughter: over the past ten years, he and Stelvio had been playing bocce every summer. Maresciallo Nardulli asked. And, cursing under his breath, he went back up toward the road, leaving behind the most compromised crime scene he had ever seen in his life. __________________________________From All That Is Left of Life by Roberta Recchia.