By Any Means

By Any Means

by Saverio Monachino

Just a typical summer night in Montréal for a middle aged grocer named Giorgio, sitting on the roof, reciting poems to the waning moon, dressed from head to toe in leather while watching a man in the alley commit murder with a hard salami.

Maybe not typical after all and neither is Savario Monachino's debut novel, which will have you reeling in one red herring after another.

When the unfortunate leather clad poet is anonymously fingered for the crime, the press goes into a feeding frenzy, the politicians take sides, and Giorgio's life literally falls into the hands of Inspector Gervais of the Sûreté de Quebec and that's when the fun begins.

What, inspector Gervais wants to know, do an overweight grocer, batman, tax attorneys, a dysfunctional Italian family, city politics and an esoteric secret society that may or may not be the remnants of the Knights Templar have in common? Not much but this is all the good Inspector has to go on as he races to solve a gruesome murder.

Montréal in the summertime can be fun, but murder can be funnier.

Saverio Monachino, when describing himself, simply states “I’m a Scientist, or at least I was”. While by trade he was a very accomplished scientist, life changes, and challenges with a twist of fate have come to play and this has allowed him to follow his true passion: Revel creatively in the complexities of the human condition.

Saverio J. Monachino was born and raised in Virginia the son of immigrant parents. He has a bachelor degree from the University of Virginia and a Doctorate from Georgetown University. Saverio has spent a good long time working in the biotechnology industry including drug discovery and development along with technology innovation and implementation. When not in workaholic mode exploring various states in this country and provinces of Canada were on his list of things to do. He uses this exposure to regional idiosyncrasies as a source for the interesting characters populating his stories.