Bari, Southern Italy, December 2009. A triple homicide in the city centre two days before Christmas and the discovery, a week before, of a middle-aged woman's corpse in one of the city's parks catapult inspector Andrea Pantaleo into a double investigation with a totally unpredictable outcome. But it is Gianrico Salvemini, the Provincial Deputy Chief of Police, to call Pantaleo to the scene of the triple homicide. Something behind the brutal crime has terrified the Deputy Chief. Something from his past. The dead of the present and those of a nightmare started many years before are somehow connected. A nightmare that can be interrupted only by Andrea Pantaleo, an experienced inspector who grew up devouring Sherlock Holmes and Ellery Queen detective novels...THE AUTHORJonathan Connor is the pseudonym of a famous and highly regarded author, who has accepted the challenge of self-publishing. THE ORIGIN OF MADNESS is his first novel published under pseudonym on Amazon.