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A Woman Much Missed: A Commissario Soneri Investigation (Commissario Soneri 4)
Valerio Varesi
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Description for A Woman Much Missed: A Commissario Soneri Investigation (Commissario Soneri 4)
Paperback. Commissario Soneri - Italy's Maigret - returns in his fourth investigation, the most painfully personal yet. Translator(s): Farrell, Joseph. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 202.
Italy's Maigret returns in another smouldering noir from a master of the police procedural A master storyteller Barry Forshaw, Independent 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 ... Read more
Italy's Maigret returns in another smouldering noir from a master of the police procedural A master storyteller Barry Forshaw, Independent 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
202g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848666887
SKU
V9781848666887
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Ref
99-50
About 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.
Reviews for A Woman Much Missed: A Commissario Soneri Investigation (Commissario Soneri 4)
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more