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Timothy Williams

A small-town kidnapping presents a major problem for an Italian police investigator, in this “gripping” crime novel by an award-winning author (Publishers Weekly).
 
 Northern Italy, 1978: Commissario Piero Trotti, trusted senior police investigator in a provincial city off the River Po, has two difficult cases to solve. A dismembered body has been found in the river, and it’s up to Trotti to figure out who the murder victim is. At the same time, an estranged friend approaches Trotti with a desperate personal plea: his six-year-old daughter—Trotti’s own goddaughter—has been kidnapped.
 
 In the wake of the high-profile kidnapping of Aldo Moro, president of Italy’s majority party, faith in law enforcement is at an all-time low. The distraught father isn’t willing to take this matter to the police—so it’s up to Trotti to find her . . .
 
 “A wonderful picture of Italy during the time of the Red Brigades.” —Elle

Soho Crime

A Commissario Trotti Investigation

Converging Parallels

In Italy, a dogged police investigator resists retirement—and plunges into a case that has rocked the city: “Breathtakingly good” (London Evening Standard).
 
 Northern Italy, 1985: Commissario Piero Trotti is fifty-six years old, and though he is widely respected on the police force for his integrity and work ethic, he is not widely liked. The junior detectives he works with transfer because he’s too hard on them; his fellow commissioner is trying to force him out. Even his family has walked out of his life: his adult daughter has moved to Bologna, and his wife has left him for New York. All signs are telling Trotti that he needs to make a change.
 
 Instead, he digs in his heels. The city is in an uproar after a young girl is attacked in her bed by an intruder. Aided by the one junior officer who still listens to him—a dogged, unflinching female brigadier named Ciuffi—Trotti sets to work, trying to figure out the truth . . .
 
 “Trotti is an inspired creation.” —The Sunday Times

Persona Non Grata

An Italian police detective investigates a teacher’s murder in a novel by one of the “10 Best Modern European Crime Writers” (The Observer).
 
 Commissario Trotti of Italy’s Polizia di Stato is called to the scene of the brutal murder of an old friend, schoolteacher Rosanna Belloni, who has been found bludgeoned in her apartment. Trotti’s superiors warn him off the case, but he is determined to hunt down the killer.
 
 There are lots of loose ends. Rosanna’s sister, a notorious drug addict, is missing. Is a recent, unexplained suicide in the River Po connected to the murder? Where does the discovery of a car dredged up from the delta fit in? Faced with a seemingly unsolvable mystery, Trotti must also grapple with obstructive colleagues—and problems in his private life.
 
Winner of a Crime Writer’s Association Award
 
 “Trotti himself is perversely lovable; totally dedicated but not without dark, self-deprecating humor.” —Booklist
 
 “The Italian atmosphere is authentically beguiling. First-rate in every way.” —The Times (London)
 
 “[Williams’s] simple but stylish dialogue-driven prose is convincingly Continental, his plotting impeccable.” —Time Out