The Wild Ones

A fresh and amusing approach to the mystery genre featuring a private detective with an unusual gift: she communicates with plants and animals.

The famous detective who communicates with plants and animals is sent on her first case away from home: to the Ferlico Mountain range in central Italy, where husband and wife run a shelter for the homeless and political refugees.

One night Yasser, a well-liked young man from Syria, goes missing. The local police believe he has left of his own free will but Cecelia, who believes otherwise, calls the Cantoni Agency to help search for him. With all the animals and plants around as witnesses, Anna is sure this will be an open and shut case, but the intensity of the voices of the forest overwhelms her. With the help of Cantoni and her Great Dane Otto, Anna finds new strategies for communicating with goats, hedgehogs, wild boars, squirrels, deer, and the vegetation surrounding the refuge. As the secrets of the small town emerge, so do the relationships between the watchful wild animals and humans. It becomes clear to Anna that for better or worse we are as inextricably connected as trees in a forest.