A Walk in the Dark (Guido Guerrieri Series #2)

by Gianrico Carofiglio, Howard Curtis (Translator)

Overview

When no lawyer accepts to represent Marina in her attempt to bring her boyfriend to trial for assault and battery, Guerrieri takes the case. No witnesses willing to testify and a hostile judge: just his kind of case. Doesn’t hurt that he’s attracted to Sister Maria, the young woman protecting Marina, who shares his love for martial arts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904738763
Publisher:	Bitter Lemon Press, Ltd
Publication date:	03/15/2011
Series:	Guido Guerrieri Series , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	218
File size:	269 KB

About the Author

Gianrico Carofiglio: Gianrico Carofiglio was an anti-Mafia prosecutor in Bari, a port on the coast of Puglia, for many years and is now a member of the Italian Senate. He has sold over 2.5 million books of the Guerrieri series in Italy alone.

Howard Curtis: Howard Curtis translates fiction from the Italian and the French. His work is much acclaimed and has won numerous prizes.

Editorial Reviews

A successful lawyer in Bari quixotically brings a civil suit for assault against the son of the judge who handles many of his own appeals in this Italian bestseller first published there in 2003. At 40, Guido Guerrieri is too old and cowardly to take up parachuting along with his girlfriend Margherita. Luckily, there's another way for him to indulge his taste for danger: to act on behalf of Martina Fumai, who's suing her abusive ex-lover, Dr. Gianluca Scianatico. Apart from phone records indicating that the estranged Scianatico may have been stalking her and a few eyewitnesses to arguments that don't prove much of anything, there's no conclusive evidence; it's clear that the case will come down to the plaintiff's word versus the defendant's. Guido (Involuntary Witness, not reviewed) weighs the likelihood of Judge Scianatico's professional revenge on him against his sympathy for sad, subdued Martina and his frankly unholy interest in Sister Claudia, the nun who runs the shelter where Martina has been staying. It's a foregone conclusion that he'll take the case and then run into the obligatory reversals: His own judge favors Scianatico's lawyer at every turn, the defense uncovers evidence of Martina's mental breakdown, the hard-nosed prosecutor Guido's working with is transferred to Palermo. But Guido has a few tricks up his own sleeve en route to the shocking conclusion. A probing tale of justice deferred.

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