The Dark Valley
Author(s): Valerio Varesi
Commissario Soneri returns home for a hard-earned autumn holiday, hoping to spend a few days mushroom picking on the slopes of Montelupo. This isolated village relies on the salame factory founded in the post-war years by Palmiro Rodolfi, and now run by his son, Paride. On arrival, Soneri is greeted by anxious rumours about the factory's solvency and the younger Rodolfi's whereabouts. Not long afterwards, a decomposing body is found in the woods. In the shadow of Montelupo, carabinieri prepare to apprehend their chief suspect - an ageing woodsman who defended the same mountains from S.S. commandos during the war.
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Shortlisted for CWA International Dagger 2012.
'A master storyteller' Barry Forshaw, Independent 'Varesi exposes a dark history that still has the power to unsettle' Joan Smith, Sunday Times 'a rich, rewarding read' Laura Wilson
Valerio Varesi has been the Parma correspondent for La Stampa and La Repubblica. The Dark Valley is the second in a series of thrillers featuring Commissario Soneri.
Joseph Farrell is the distinguished translator of Leonardo Sciascia, Vincenzo Consolo the Nobel Laureate and Dario Fo.
General Fields
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- : Maclehose Press
- : Maclehose Press
- : 01 November 2013
- : 198mm X 132mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 April 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Valerio Varesi
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 853.92
- : 288