Italian police detective Commissario Trotti returns to investigate the murder of the man breakfasting at the table next to his, during a holiday on a northern Italian lake, and Trotti discovers that he may have been the intended target
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From Publishers Weekly:
Commissario Trotti of the police in a northern Italian urban center was introduced in Williams's applauded debut, The Red Citroen. In this mesmerizing novel, the gentle officer is estivating at Lake Garda when a man breakfasting at the next table is fatally shot. Although Trotti is out of his jurisdiction, he becomes active in the investigation after two gangsters kidnap and beat him and are later found murdered in his car. The commissario learns that the first victim had been using an alias while writing a newspaper report on a crime which had involved Trotti 20 years earlier. The journalist isn't the only one posing as somebody else in a maze of tortuous circumstances that keep the reader on the qui vive. Williams, a gifted storyteller, has created another stupendous mystery to which he adds accounts of Trotti's personal troubles that increase the reader's responses to the detective's humanity. December 27
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0312530900
- ISBN 13 9780312530907
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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