Beatrice Lindi, a talented artist, has decided to help her cousin in the management of his manikin factory, so as to personalise the products. Arcata department store commissioned a ‘family’ of manikins for their store: a few weeks later they are delivered to the warehouse in Florence. But three days later, something strange happens... What mystery is hidden in these inanimate objects?

Cercere, the goddess of the messengers, is tormented by a recurring dream that her daughter, Proserpina disappears.Very soon the goddess discovers that it is a premonition; Proserpina is in fact kidnapped by the god of hell, who takes her with him to the afterlife. Giving over to the anger and pain, the goddess interrupts his good work on earth: the fields dry up, the seed no longer sprout and a terrible famine starts... The text is accompanied by some dossiers on the characters and places mentioned in the myth as well as a series of comprehension exercises.

In Genoa, the death by poisoning of a Milanese doctor upsets the peaceful atmosphere of the guest house, ‘Quarto dei Mille’, where Dr Capri spent the last night of his life. There isn’t enough evidence to think that it was suicide and the story has many mysterious aspects to it: why did someone who lived in Milan make an appointment with a lawyer in another city? And why did a rich man stay in a modest guest house and not in a 5-star hotel? Try to discover, with little Anna, the motives behind this mysterious death?