The Neopolitan Streak (Inspector Peroni Mystery of Italy) - Softcover

Holme, Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933397969 ISBN 13: 9781933397962

Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press, 2007

Synopsis

Achille Peroni loves the spicy food and passionate arguments of southern Italy, land of his birth. But fate and the Italian police force have stuck him in Verona, a city of bean soup and endless problems with the Red Brigades, a vicious gang that relies on bombs and high-profile kidnappings to further its political aims. When a wealthy general, head of one of Italy?s finest Fascist families, goes missing from his palatial estate, the Reds are the most obvious suspects. But Peroni finds himself considering a crime far more subtle and sinister than anything the Reds can dream up. A crime that leads all the way back to Romeo and Juliet, the most famous Veronese of them all.

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Review:

"The characters are delightfully etched, and Verona is bewitchingly presented" --Daily Telegraph (UK)

"The Montagues and Capulets return to life in a rich ambiance of neo-Fascism, corruption and murder...stylish done" --The Observer (UK)

"Peroni, an Anglophilic Italian, is a genuine find, an original and unusual hero" --Times of London (UK)

About this edition

• Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1933397969
• ISBN 13: 9781933397962
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277