A Woman Much Missed by Valerio Varesi - ISBN: 9781848666887
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Murder, memories, and a dead wife’s secrets haunt a detective.

A Woman Much Missed

A Commissario Soneri Investigation

  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    28 February 2017

Summary

A few days before Christmas, with Parma gripped by frost and fog, Ghitta Tagliavini, the elderly owner of a guesthouse in the old town centre, is found murdered in her apartment.

The case is assigned to Commissario Soneri, but the investigation holds a painful, personal element that sends waves of nostalgia sweeping through him. Tagliavini’s guesthouse is where Soneri met his late wife Ada, and where the young couple spent unforgettable hours in each other’s company.

But the p…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781848666887
ISBN-10:1848666888
Author:Valerio Varesi, Joseph Farrell
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:MacLehose Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:28 February 2017
Weight:219g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 20mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Sinisterly atmospheric, cunningly plotted … Shot through with lightning flashes of sardonic humour. - Glasgow Herald.

A master storyteller. - Independent.

Varesi’s plotting is sound and his pacing good. Where he raises his game from the common crime ruck, however, is in his almost painterly evocation of a wretchedly dark atmosphere and character. He could be the long-lost heir to Caravaggio. - Glasgow Herald.

Excellent … Compellingly reveals an authentic darkness at the heart of modern Italy. - Spectator.

About The Author

Valerio Varesi

Valerio Varesi has been the Parma correspondent for La Stampa and La Repubblica. River of Shadows was the first of a series of thrillers featuring Commissario Soneri, now the central figure of one of Italy’s most popular television dramas. It was followed in English translation by The Dark Valley, Gold Frankincense and Dust and A Woman Much Missed.

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