The cold summer

Gianrico Carofiglio

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The cold summer

2018
MafiaInvestigationMurderFictionItaly, fictionFiction, legalFiction, thrillersFiction, mystery & detective, police proceduralFiction, mystery & detective, historicalFICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & CrimeFICTION / Thrillers / Legal

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.

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