Rosa Planas' novel "Florentine Masks" will attract the attention of all lovers of the detective, rich in rich cultural, literary, historical content, a genre represented by the big names Umberto Eco and Arturo Perez-Reverte. The wooden boy Pinocchio invades the real life of the heroes in an incomprehensible way, but his figure turns out to be not so much funny as funny sinister. "Pinocchio's Skull," a strange, nosy skull discovered in Haiti, wields mysterious power over people's thoughts and fates, forever depriving them of their peace and dooming them to an agonizing quest for clues that are hidden in a maze of the past - historical and mythical. Trying to unravel the invisible threads connecting the characters of the Italian "comedy of masks" and silent cinema, members of the secret lodge of carbonarians and the inhabitants of the "house of the dead" with the creation of Carlo Collodi - Pinocchio, the heroes of the novel put themselves in real danger. Murder, death, suicide... Will any of the heroes of the novel be able to penetrate the secret of Pinocchio and get out of this test safe and sound?