The Lizard Strategy
$37.00
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
10 July 2019
Summary
Italy’s Maigret returns in another smouldering noir from a master of the police procedural
“A master storyteller” - Barry Forshaw, Independent
Parma is blanketed in snow, but this pristine, white veneer cannot mask the stench of corruption. Its officials are no longer working for its people - only for themselves - crime is out of control and resentment festers in every district.
Commissario Soneri remains at heart an idealist, so the state of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857056153 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0857056158 |
| Author: | Valerio Varesi, Joseph Farrell |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 10 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
Splendid … one of his most inspired investigations.
A master storyteller. - Independent.
Splendid … one of his most inspired investigations. - Sunday Times.Varesi’s talent for evoking place and time draws a politically and socially engaged picture of Italy’s past. - C.W.A. Judges’ Comments.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.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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