Gianrico Carofiglio

The summer of 1992 is a cold one in southern Italy. The chilling Mafia violence currently sweeping Sicily has spread to Puglia, much to the consternation of Pietro Fenoglio, a local officer of the Carabinieri. Fenoglio, recently jilted by his wife, must simultaneously deal with his personal crisis and the gang wars raging around Bari. The case is stalled until a Mafia member, suspected of killing the son of a rival mobster, decides to collaborate. The brutal killings are stopped but the mystery of the boy's murder must still be solved, leading Fenoglio into a world of deep moral ambiguity, where the investigators are hard to distinguish from the investigated.

An under-cover Roman policeman ravaged by guilt meets a woman on the run from her past.

"Penelope si sveglia nella casa di uno sconosciuto, dopo l'ennesima notte sprecata. Va via silenziosa e solitaria, attraverso le strade livide dell'autunno milanese. Faceva il pubblico ministero fino a un misterioso incidente che ha messo drammaticamente fine alla sua carriera. Un giorno si presenta da lei un uomo che è stato indagato per l'omicidio della moglie. Il procedimento si è concluso con l'archiviazione ma non ha cancellato i terribili sospetti da cui era sorto. L'uomo le chiede di occuparsi del caso, per recuperare l'onore perduto, per sapere cosa rispondere alla sua bambina quando, diventata grande, chiederà della madre. Penelope, dopo un iniziale rifiuto, si lascia convincere dall'insistenza di un suo vecchio amico, cronista di nera, convinto dell'innocenza del marito. Comincia così un'appassionante investigazione che si snoda fra vie sconosciute della città e i ricordi di una vita che non torna."--Goodreads.com

The fifth in the best-selling Guido Guerrieri series. When Judge Larocca is accused of corruption, Guerrieri goes against his better instincts and takes the case. Helped by Annapaola Doria, a motorbike-riding bisexual private detective who keeps a baseball bat on hand for sticky situations, he investigates the alleged links to the mafia. Of course Guerrieri cannot stop himself from falling for Annapaola's exotic charms. The novel is a suspenseful legal thriller but it is also much more. It is the story of a judge who, to quote Dostoevsky, "lies to himself and listens to his own lies, so gets to the point where he can no longer distinguish the truth, either in himself or around himself."

Drawn to a hopeless cause, only Guido Guerrieri will take the case when a woman accuses her well-connected ex-boyfriend of assault and battery. Some of the attraction to take the case involves Sister Claudia. In charge of the shelter where his client is living, she shares his love of martial arts and hatred of injustice.

As world-weary Lieutenant Chiti spends sleepless nights hunting for the serial rapist terrorizing his city, trainee lawyer Giorgio is befriended by dangerously charismatic Francesco. Slowly the innocent Giorgio is lured into a corrupt world of beautiful women and casual violence. Then one terrifying night Giorgio is forced to realize just how far he has left his past behind.

Cocaine examines the rise and fall of this notorious substance from its legitimate use by scientists and medics in the nineteenth century to the international prohibitionist regimes and drug gangs of today. Themes explored include: Amsterdam's complex cocaine culture the manufacture, sale and control of cocaine in the United States Japan and the Southeast Asian cocaine industry export of cocaine prohibitions to Peru * sex, drugs and race in early modern London Cocaine unveils new primary sources and covert social, cultural and political transformations to shed light on cocaine's hidden history.