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In the latest Commissario Alec Blume novel, our hero is called in by old friend magistrate Principe to "shadow" an investigation into the attempted murder of a former fascist terrorist responsible for a public bombing thirty years earlier. This investigation is adjacent to another: the murder of a young woman on the university campus of Rome. The apparent link between these two crimes is an articulate, learned, and thoroughly crazy professor c...

An engrossing novel of murder, organized crime, and politics in contemporary Italy-the first in a series of Italian crime novels by a promising new writer.

PB edition of the latest thriller starring Commissioner Alec Blume, set in Italy. Follows the success of }The Dogs Of Rome{ and }The Fatal Touch{, which was named one of the Best Summer Crime Reads 2011 in 3 leading magazines. Like the bestselling novels of Andrea Camilleri, Donna Leon, Michael Dibdin and Michele Guittari, this novel takes place in the heart of Italy, where the police and criminals vie for control

Alec Blume returns to action in this intricate and heart-pounding new novel. With the help of his associate Caterina, Blume is called to the scene of a death connected to a spate of muggings. Though the Carabinieri-military police-are trying to control the investigation, Blume, never one to bow to authority, pursues it his own way.When it becomes clear that the victim is an art forger, enemies-and hidden treasures-begin to emerge. Relying on o...

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The latest novel featuring Alec Blume, set in the heart of Rome, following the success of "The Dogs Of Rome". Commissioner Blume finds his investigation of a suspicious death in Piazza de' Renzi is blocked by the authorities. What have they got to hide? '...it's beautifully written and has a deliciously laconic sense of humour' "Irish Times

Alec Blume returns to action in this intricate and heart-pounding new novel. With the help of his associate Caterina, Blume is called to the scene of a death connected to a spate of muggings. Though the Carabinieri-military police-are trying to control the investigation, Blume, never one to bow to authority, pursues it his own way. I mmersed in an old-world setting and written with satisfying detail about the tools of art forgery, this is a ri...

When magistrate Matteo Arconti's namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is found dead outside the court buildings in Piazzo Clodio, it's a clear warning to the authorities in Rome--a message of defiance and intimidation.

When magistrate Matteo Arconti's namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is found dead outside the court buildings in Piazzo Clodio, it's a clear warning to the authorities in Rome--a message of defiance and intimidation.

Commissario Alec Blume, on leave for health problems and fleeing his partner, Caterina, and their newborn daughter, retreats to a villa somewhere in central Italy, where he enrolls in a natural remedies class conducted by a young woman named Silvana. But rather than finding comfort, Blume becomes increasingly ill-and ill at ease-in his new environment and immediately makes an enemy of Niki, Silvana's ambiguous fiancé. Then a Romanian girl who ...

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The fifth in the acclaimed Italian crime series featuring Comissario Alec Blume. On health leave at a crumbling villa in central Italy, Blume finds himself dragged into the shadowy case of a missing girl, and the secret horrors of the once-magnificent gardens' malign beauty.

Commissario Alec Blume, on leave for health problems, fleeing his partner Caterina and their newborn daughter, retreats to a villa somewhere in central Italy, where he enrolls in a natural remedies class conducted by a young woman named Silvana. But rather than finding comfort, Blume becomes increasingly ill--and ill at ease--in his new environment, and immediately makes an enemy of Niki, Silvana's ambiguous fiancé. Then a Romanian girl who wo...