A Woman Much Missed: A Commissario Soneri Investigation

Valerio-Varesi

MacLehose Press

<p>Commissario Soneri, a Parma police officer and gourmet, is investigating an unsolved case of a dead body found in the Po River three years before. His colleagues at the time could not decide if it was a suicide or a murder, nor could they establish the victim's identity. To close the case, Soneri needs to look a little further. Yet it's just a formality, a matter of going through the motions. Soneri, however, is not one for formalities. He can't endure burying a person without a name, so he decides to reopen the case. The gourmet detective, an intelligent and apparently grouchy man, uses unconventional policing methods. His partner, Angela Cornelio, a lawyer, helps him with his enquiries. The investigation leads them to river life, where he tries to break the wall of silence, typical of small communities harbouring poachers, petty criminals and big-time profiteers - even a monster in the waters of the River Po ;Soneri realises that the fog surrounding the Po makes things invisible and people unseen; it changes their identities; it deceives. And sometimes it kills. Fans of the Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri will be intrigued.</p>

The Unseen: A Detective Novel

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Patrician Press

Woman Much Missed

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Quercus Publishing

<p>A tense noir set in the dark and foggy hinterland of the River Po, a tough area of Italy as yet undiscovered by an English audience.</p>

River of Shadows (Commissario Soneri Investigation)

In a bleak valley in Northern Italy, the River Po is swollen to its limits. The thick fog that usually clings to the town, blurring its surroundings and plunging its inhabitants into near-blindness, has been driven out by the raging storm. So when an empty barge drifts downriver, the fact the owner is missing does not go unnoticed. That same night Commissario Soneri is called in to investigate the murder of the boatman's brother. The brothers served together in the fascist militia fifty years earlier - could this be a revenge killing after so long? Soneri's investigation meets with a wall of silence from those who make their living along the banks of river. As the fog descends and the valley is hidden once more, Soneri must navigate fifty-year-old loyalties and deep-rooted rivalries before he can find out the truth.

River of Shadows

Maclehose Press Quercus

Gold, Frankincense and Dust

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