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Back to the Coast
 Back to the CoastThis is relentless suspense writing: a description of Maria's hellish descent into a world of induced paranoia.
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 Crimini Crimini
Niccolo Ammaniti and others

New stories by the best Italian crime writers. Ammaniti, Camilleri, Lucarelli and others.
UK Jan 2008 / US Apr 2008

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 Someone Else Someone Else
Tonino Benacquista

Who hasn't wanted to become “someone else”? The person you've always wanted to be…the person who won't give up half way to your dreams and desires?

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 Framed Framed
Tonino Benacquista

Antoine's life is good. During the day he hangs pictures for the most fashionable art galleries in Paris. Evenings he dedicates to the silky moves and subtle tactics of billiards, his true passion.

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 Holy Smoke Holy Smoke
Tonino Benacquista

Holy Smoke is a darkly comic iconoclastic tale told by an author of great verve and humour. It is also an attempt to unearth Benacquista's Italian roots.

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 Rage Rage
Sergio Bizzio

A metaphor for the decline of Argentina and the resentment that spreads like a plague penetrating to the core of its people, "Rage" is also a tale of love and suspense...
UK Jun 2009 / US Nov 2009
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 Involuntary Witness Involuntary Witness
Gianrico Carofiglio

A nine-year-old boy is found murdered at the bottom of a well near a popular beach resort in southern Italy. It looks like a hopeless case for Guido Guerrieri, counsel for the defence.

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A Walk in the Dark A Walk in the Dark
Gianrico Carofiglio

When Martina accuses her ex-boyfriend – the son of a powerful local judge – of assault and battery, no witnesses can be persuaded to testify on her behalf and one lawyer after another refuses to represent her.

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 Reasonable Doubts Reasonable Doubts
Gianrico Carofiglio

The third in the best-selling Guido Guerrieri series. A neo-Fascist thug confesses to drug smuggling and is sentenced to serious time inside. Guerrieri takes on the appeal.
UK Jul 2007 / US Oct 2007

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 The Vampire of Ropraz The Vampire of Ropraz
Jacques Chessex

On a howling December day a lone walker discovers a tomb recently opened, the body of a young woman violated, left hand cut off, sex mutilated and heart cut out.
UK Oct 2008 / US Apr 2009

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The Mannequin Man The Mannequin Man
Luca Di Fulvio

Inspector Amaldi has enough problems. A city choked by a pestilent rubbish strike, a beautiful student harassed by a telephone stalker, a colleague dying of cancer and the mysterious disappearance...

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