Enid Enigma. The Sleep of the Dead - vol. 2
Alida Pintus, Sonia Elisabetta Corvaglia
Enid Enigma. Thirteen magpies for a murder – vol. 1
Crime
Mystery
Enid Enigma has a magpie for a friend—and a secret: she solves cases before they happen.
Each time, she has thirteen hours to save a life. Enid encounters thirteen magpies in front of Midì Cemetery. Time seems to have stopped; the sky is ghostly. One of them lands on her shoulder for a moment, then flies onto a grave. Enid steps closer—it belongs to Professor Mirabilia. How is that possible? Just moments earlier, the professor was at school, alive and well. Meanwhile, something glimmers in the magpie’s beak. The bird lets it fall: it’s a small key with a moth-shaped inlay. The word SPLEX is engraved on its left wing. Enid has seen that word somewhere before, but before she can think it through, the key crumbles into dust, and a tear of light opens in the violet sky, growing wider and wider. Enid squeezes her eyes shut… and opens them again in her grandmother’s house. She has fallen asleep over her history book. So it was all a dream. Or was it?
- A fascinating, symbolic world full of mystery.
- A friendship (and perhaps something more) rich in complicity.
Publisher:
Giunti
Target:
8-10
Year:
2026
Author
Sonia Elisabetta Corvaglia
Sonia Elisabetta Corvaglia was born in Salento and lives and works in Milan. With a passion for mythology, rock music, and cats, she teaches high school and works on projects for inclusion and reading promotion. She is the author of books for children and young adults, which have also been translated and published abroad. Her stories explore themes of diversity, adventure, and mystery, blending dark atmospheres with a touch of irony.
Author
Alida Pintus
I was born in 2001 in Enna, and for as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by stories. I was always asking for new ones, and soon I started drawing the characters from my favorite tales the way I imagined them. That’s when I realized I wanted to keep doing this as a job when I grew up. So I enrolled in the local Art High School, and after graduating, I studied illustration at Mimaster in Milan and visual development at Idea Academy in Rome. I began my career as a character designer for video games and board games, but for the past three years, I’ve mainly been working as a freelance illustrator for publishing and animation. In 2024, the Italian association Autori di Immagini awarded me the Toppi Prize for my piece The Emperor. The same illustration was also featured in the exhibition From Illustration to Comics: Pencils in Talented Young Hands, curated by the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and unveiled at last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
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