Antonio Manzini, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Harper, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-231004-0
Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone, the urbane but unlikable protagonist of Manzini’s English-language debut, has been exiled to the town of Aosta in the Alps after a dustup with his superiors in Rome. As casually arrogant as any Manhattanite...
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Antonio Manzini, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Harper/Bourbon Street, $14.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-235467-9
Manzini’s entertaining second mystery set in Aosta in northwest Italy (after 2015’s Black Run) finds Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone still discontent living in the sleepy Alpine town, where he was transferred from his beloved native Rome as...
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Antonio Manzini, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Harper, $15.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-269649-6
Manzini’s engrossing third mystery featuring Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone (after 2016’s Adam’s Rib) opens with a cargo van blowing a tire and veering off a wet, icy road in Italy’s mountainous Valle d’Aosta region into a stand of trees. The...
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Antonio Manzini, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Harper, $15.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-269652-6
Set in Italy’s Aosta region, Manzini’s quirky, multilayered fourth police procedural featuring hardboiled, wisecracking, sometimes misanthropic deputy chief Rocco Schiavone finds Rocco still shaken after the murder of his best friend’s girlfriend,...
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