The Yellow and the Black
Tobias Jones: Fiction and reality in Italian noir, 20 May 2004
The Colombian Mule
by Massimo Carlotto, translated by Christopher Woodall.
Orion, 156 pp., £9.99, December 2003,0 7528 5733 9 Show More
by Massimo Carlotto, translated by Christopher Woodall.
Orion, 156 pp., £9.99, December 2003,
The Shape of Water
by Andrea Camilleri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
Picador, 249 pp., £6.99, February 2004,0 330 49286 1 Show More
by Andrea Camilleri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
Picador, 249 pp., £6.99, February 2004,
The Terracotta Dog
by Andrea Camilleri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
Picador, 343 pp., £15.99, February 2004,9780330492904 Show More
by Andrea Camilleri, translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
Picador, 343 pp., £15.99, February 2004,
Almost Blue
by Carlo Lucarelli, translated by Oonagh Stransky.
Harvill, 169 pp., £9.99, August 2003,9781843430865 Show More
by Carlo Lucarelli, translated by Oonagh Stransky.
Harvill, 169 pp., £9.99, August 2003,
The Advocate: A Sardinian Mystery
by Marcello Fois, translated by Patrick Creagh.
Vintage, 128 pp., £6.99, June 2004,0 09 945374 6 Show More
by Marcello Fois, translated by Patrick Creagh.
Vintage, 128 pp., £6.99, June 2004,
“... any sense of where truth lies’. ‘No one cared about knowing the truth,’ says the narrator of Marcello Fois’s The Advocate. ‘It was easier that way, it didn’t tread on the toes of important people.’ The criminal cases in many of these gialli have been settled before the action begins. The narrative isn’t about closing, but about reopening a ... ”
