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Northern Italy, 1978: Commissario Piero Trotti, trusted senior police investigator in an anonymous provincial city off the River Po, has two difficult cases to solve. An unidentified, dismembered body has been found in the river, and it's up to Trotti to figure out who the murder victim is. Meanwhile, an estranged friend approaches Trotti with a desperate personal plea: his six-year-old daughter, Trotti's own goddaughter, has been kidnapped. Williams' first novel is a gripping, literary thriller with vividly drawn characters and lush descriptions.
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'Trotti, whose patch is an unnamed small town in northern Italy, is dogged, cynical, and worries about his wife and anorexic daughter. But above all, he's honest in a society and political system in which corruption flourishes.' - --The Sunday Times
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CWA award-winning author Timothy Williams has written six crime novels set in Italy featuring Commissario Piero Trotti as well as two novels set in the French Caribbean, Another Sun and The Honest Folk of Guadeloupe. Born in London and educated at St. Andrews, Williams has taught at the universities of Poitiers in France, Bari and Pavia in Italy, at Jassy in Romania, and most recently in the French West Indies. The Observer placed him among the ten best modern European crime novelists.
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- PublisherLittlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0575031255
- ISBN 13 9780575031258
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 250 pages. 400 grams. Book is in good ex-library condition with associated markings and attachments. Dust jacket is in good condition. Dust jacket condition preserved within new clear plastic removable non-adhesive protective covering. Spine slightly cocked. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction, Modern First Editions.; ISBN: 0575031255. ISBN/EAN: 9780575031258. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 005014. Seller Inventory # 005014
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 250 pages. 370 grams. Gollancz Yellow Jacket. This book is in good ex-library condition with associated markings and attachments. The dust jacket is in good condition. Dust jacket condition preserved within new clear plastic removable non-adhesive protective covering. 'A small-town kidnapping sets Commissario Trotti a big problem and projects the reader into this quite outstanding mystery. Against an authentically realised background of a provincial Italiam city, Trotti's investigation leads ever deeper into the mire of corruption and blackmail which seems to taint everything and everybody. As he probes further, so Trotti's problems multiply. Timothy Williams' novel is for connoisseurs of crime fiction, a gripping story of high calibre with real characters and vivid observation reminiscent of the best Chandler or Freeling. We shall hear more of Commissario Trotti and of Timothy Williams, a truly gifted author whose first novel this is. Timothy Williams was born in Walthamstow in 1946. He went to Chigwell School, Essex and the Universities of St Andrews and Manchester. He has taught at various schools and universities in England, France, Italy, Rumania and the French Caribbean where he presently lives.' 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction, Modern First Editions.; ISBN: 0575031255. ISBN/EAN: 9780575031258. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001010. Seller Inventory # 001010
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