Gianrico Carofiglio

From one of Italy's best-selling authors, a coming-of-age story set over 48 hours in the streets of Marseille, as a father and son connect for the first time. Antonio is on the cusp of adulthood, trying to work out who to be and what to do. His father, once a brilliant mathematician, hasn't figured much in his son's life since...

War is raging in southern Italy in the early nineties: anti-mafia judges are being killed in roadside explosions; dead criminals, the victims of internecine warfare, are littering the streets; and the police have no idea who is fighting whom. Maresciallo Pietro Fenoglio, an officer of the Carabinieri, must contend with the gang war while his marriage falls apart. When the...

When Judge Larocca is the subject of corruption allegations, Guerrieri goes against his better instincts and takes the case. After all, they had been at school and university together. Helped by Annapaola Doria, a motorbike-riding bisexual private detective who keeps a baseball bat to hand for sticky situations, he discovers the judge's links to the mafia. Larocca is blind to...