Framed

Praise for Holy Smoke, the first in the Antoine series:

"A terrific black comedy …both a blasphemously funny satire of provincial Italian chicanery and a wry acknowledgment of the ambivalence that ambitious immigrants feel about their roots."—The New York Times

"Unexpected deadly demands made in the name of friendship inspire the plot of this quirky mystery novel. Irreverently inveighs against romantic love, cancer and the Paris suburbs."—The Washington Post

"An iconoclastic chronicle of small...