Italy
Crime, organized and other

'Involuntary Witness is a compelling novel written by a state prosecutor, the scourge of local criminals who likes to write books that make his readers cry. An author that has the audacity to reveal both a flawed legal system and debunk the myth of the macho Italian man.' Observer

Are you still hoping to discover the hidden face of Italian crime by reading English or American lady mystery writers? It must be time to move on to the real thing. Bitter Lemon Press takes you to Bologna, Genoa and Bari guided by authors who operate from the inside. Local writers who have day jobs such as prosecutors, journalists or essayists but who dedicate their nights to the arcane craft of crime writing.

Rigosi’s 'Night Bus' starts in a world of flash Bologna night clubs but soon revels in the typical chess moves and paranoid rivalries of the Italian Secret Service, the local police and the political parties. Carofiglio is a local anti-Mafia prosecutor. His Defence Counsel Guerrieri series takes place in the Southern Italian port of Bari, a town plagued by foreign and local organized crime groups that specialize in the traffic in human beings, body parts and even dabble in such workaday products as heroin or speed. Carofiglio deftly sidesteps the obvious however and concentrates his novels on the predicament of a middle aged defence lawyer perpetually in personal crisis and doing battle with the racism and corruption that undermine the local legal system.

	Crimini Niccolo Ammaniti and others £8.99 buy now $14.95 buy now [more]
	Involuntary Witness Gianrico Carofiglio £8.99 buy now $13.95 buy now [more]
	Reasonable Doubts Gianrico Carofiglio £8.99 buy now $14.95 buy now [more]
	A Walk in the Dark Gianrico Carofiglio £9.99 buy now $14.95 buy now [more]
	The Mannequin Man Luca Di Fulvio £9.99 buy now $14.95 buy now [more]
	Blackout Gianluca Morozzi [more]
	Night Bus Giampiero Rigosi £9.99 buy now $14.95 buy now [more]

Links
Carofiglio-CrimeTime
www.crimetime.co.uk/ make_page.php?id=563

Carofiglio-International Noir
internationalnoir.blogspot.com/ 2006/ 05/ gianrico-carofiglio-walk-in-dark.html

Carofiglio-Words without Borders
www.wordswithoutborders.org/ article.php?lab=AWalkInTheDark

Carofiglio-UK tour April 2006
www.crimeculture.com/ images/ BloodyForeigners.doc

Carofiglio-Toronto visit October 2006
www.iictoronto.esteri.it/ IIC_Toronto/ webform/ SchedaEvento.aspx?id=79&citta=Toronto

Carofiglio-New Yorker ‘talk of the town' on November 2005 visit
www.newyorker.com/ talk/ content/ articles/ 051205ta_talk_collins

Di Fulvio-Author Interview
www.nonleggere.it/ default.asp?content=%2 Fnarrativa%2 Fblu1%2 Fluca%5Fdi%5Ffulvio%2 Fschedaautore%2 Easp

Di Fulvio-Review
italian-mysteries.com/LDF01.html

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

Crimini publisher Einaudi
www.einaudi.it/ einaudi/ ita/ catalogo/ scheda.jsp?isbn=978880617576&ed=87

Niccolo Ammaniti author site
www.niccoloammaniti.com/

Andrea Camilleri author site
www.andreacamilleri.net/

Guardian on Camilleri and Italian crime writing
books.guardian.co.uk/ departments/ crime/ story/ 0,,1921838,00.html

Carlo Lucarelli author site
www.carlolucarelli.net/index2.htm

Massimo Carlotto author website
www.massimocarlotto.it/ english/ biography.html