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The momentum never lets up...thoughtful and disturbing (Sunday Herald )
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The new Chief Superintendent Ferrara case by the author of A Florentine Death
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A fill in book to keep the publisher happy? not what I expected from a good series of books about Itailian
crime and also a decent and modern tale about Itailian ways of life, but this is a not very good American story line with a weak link to the previous Italian characters. If you want American fiction there is a lot better out there, but this is at the expense of the previous interesting efforts.
crime and also a decent and modern tale about Itailian ways of life, but this is a not very good American story line with a weak link to the previous Italian characters. If you want American fiction there is a lot better out there, but this is at the expense of the previous interesting efforts.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having read Mr Giuttari's previous books I awaited this one with anticipation. OK., the story was as good as ever but the writing was not. He has fallen into the trap of bad airport fiction, that of giving information via short and stilted conversations - information overload with no idea how to impart it more effectively. I missed the fluency of his earlier writing, and NO, this was not due to poor translation. Ir was as if the USA locations robbed him of the ability to write prose paragraphs and so he resorted to pages of bad dialogue. As I said the story itself was as good as ever but low marks on technical merit. I'm glad I read a library copy and didn't buy my own as I would have felt shortchanged.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read all Michele Giuttari's books about Michele Ferrara and this is, in my opinion, by far the weakest. The others in the series have all been set in Italy and this is divided between Calabria and New York, an uneasy mix which never seems happy in either setting. Ferrara himself only appears half way through the book and takes a merely peripheral part in the plot. I found the American detectives unconvincing and with little character. There were far too many characters in this plot and I found myself trying to remember who was who and whether it mattered anyway. I even began to wonder if the incentive for this particular novel had been a trip to the States for the author! Petra, Ferrara's long-suffering wife emerges with more character than most of the rest of the cast! The idea itself, of related crimes carried out in Italy and America was a good premise, but somehow it never really gained enough depth to hold interest. If you like blood and brooding Italian women devoted to the "men of honour" then this might be for you. However I am waiting for Ferrara to return to Florence which seems to be the correct setting for this interesting detective. Please, please stay in Italy next time!
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Aaaaaargh!
Dear oh dear! "A classic of the genre (sic)" Henry Sutton, Daily Mirror.
It might have been in Italian but compared with Michael Dibdin and Conor Fitzgerald, a poor... Read more
It might have been in Italian but compared with Michael Dibdin and Conor Fitzgerald, a poor... Read more
Published 8 months ago by BRIAN J DAVIES
Ferrara meets the FBI
Firstly a couple of nit-picks. Number one. Authors are not best served by sloppy copy editors. I'm not sure whether this is a creeping malaise but it is not the first time recently... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mick Read
Lacking in every way
I took this on holiday to Rome - and was enormously disappointed. I stuck with it until I got half way through and gave up.
Very very stilted writing style. Read more
Very very stilted writing style. Read more
Published 8 months ago by MarianJK
As weak as it gets
Having really enjoyed his earlier books, I looked forward to my summer fix from Guittari. It is very rare that I give up on a book but I had to here. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Gordon Wallace
DEATH IN CALABRIA
As with his other books this is well written a good plot and a hard to put down read, another good holiday read.
Published 9 months ago by Hugh P. Price
very poor
I thought this looked exciting and chose it as a holiday read. However,this is a very dissapointing book, this could be in the translation as some have suggested but more likely... Read more
Published 10 months ago by starsailor
A Death in Calabria
After reading a Death in Tuscany, I was really looking forward to seeing what happened to Chief Superindent Michael Ferrara. Read more
Published 10 months ago by janice mary
Mindless pap
This book is filled with inconsequential drivel and unloved characters. The storyline is vaguely interesting but very disjointed and confusing. Read more
Published 10 months ago by robertG
Not an author to return to
A Death in Tuscany is a most unusual book. There four quotes on the back cover praising the work of Michele Guittari, two of which are in praise of this particular book, so perhaps... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Martin A. Chambers
OK but....
I have read all of Senor Giuttari's previous novels and was a little disappointed with this one. It is set in New York, Rome and Calabria rather than the Florence he knows so well... Read more
Published 19 months ago by MLAbrahams
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