A night bus might seem an odd vehicle to be driving through the centre of a thriller. Its driver, Francesco, is a down at heel bachelor who spends his long days gambling and hiding from a thuggish debt-collector known as the Bear. It is only when he pairs up with Leila, a sharp-witted and beautiful prostitute who makes her living drugging and robbing her clients--before or after bed, whichever is easier-- that his life takes on something like a sheen of glamour.
Author Information
Giampiero Rigosi, born in 1962, lives and works in Bologna. He is a much acclaimed literary critic, short-story and song writer as well as a producer of radio programmes on cinema noir and crime literature. Night Bus is his first crime novel.
The Translator
Ann Goldstein's passion is translating from the Italian. She has written prize-winning translations of books by Roberto Calasso, Aldo Buzzi and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Praise for Night Bus
''A broken neck described as lovingly as the preparation of eggplant parmigiana'.' New Yorker
''Literary critic Rigosi has set his first crime novel in Bologna; it's a fast-moving thriller that compares favourably with the work of Elmore Leonard and Donald E. Westlake.'' Publishers Weekly
Internet links
Rigosi-Author Interview
italialibri.net/ interviste/ 0305-1.html
Rigosi-Review I Night Bus
italian-mysteries.com/GRIG01.html
Rigosi-Review II Night Bus
internationalnoir.blogspot.com/ 2006_03_01_internationalnoir_archive.html
