Product Description
Guerrieri is asked to handle the appeal of Fabio Paolicelli sentenced to sixteen years for smuggling drugs into Italy. Everything seems stacked against the appeal, not least the fact that Paolicelli initially confessed to the crime. Guerrieri's reluctance to take on the case is intensified by the fact that the accused is not unknown to him. Paolicelli was a notorious neo-Fascist thug. It is only the intervention of Paolicelli's beautiful half-Japanese wife Natsu that finally overcomes Guerrieri's reluctance. When he ends up in bed with her things get really interesting.
From the Publisher
Reasonable Doubts sold over 150,000 copies in the first week
after its release in Italy. The novel are the basis of a major television
series in Italy.
after its release in Italy. The novel are the basis of a major television
series in Italy.
From the Back Cover
Praise for the Guerrieri novels
"Involuntary Witness is a stunner. The trial itself is absorbing but it is
the veracity of the setting and the humanity of the lawyer that makes the
novel a courtroom drama of such rare quality." The Times
"The author occupies a niche similar to that which is filled in America by
Erle Stanley Gardner and John Grisham. The genre is flourishing and if
Carofiglio, following his fellow practitioners, has endowed his hero with
discriminating taste for good food, he has none of their relish for
brutality." Times Literary Supplement
"Walk in the Dark features an engagingly complex, emotional and moody
defence lawyer, Guido Guerrieri, who takes on cases shunned by his
colleagues. In passing, Carofiglio provides a fascinating insight into the
workings of the Italian criminal justice system." The Observer
"Involuntary Witness is a stunner. The trial itself is absorbing but it is
the veracity of the setting and the humanity of the lawyer that makes the
novel a courtroom drama of such rare quality." The Times
"The author occupies a niche similar to that which is filled in America by
Erle Stanley Gardner and John Grisham. The genre is flourishing and if
Carofiglio, following his fellow practitioners, has endowed his hero with
discriminating taste for good food, he has none of their relish for
brutality." Times Literary Supplement
"Walk in the Dark features an engagingly complex, emotional and moody
defence lawyer, Guido Guerrieri, who takes on cases shunned by his
colleagues. In passing, Carofiglio provides a fascinating insight into the
workings of the Italian criminal justice system." The Observer
"Part legal thriller, part insight into a man fighting his own demons.
Every character in Carofiglio's fiction has a story to tell and they are
always worth hearing. As the author himself is an anti-mafia prosecutor,
this powerfully affecting series benefits from veracity as well as tight
writing." Daily Mail
About the Author
Carofiglio, born 1961, is an anti-mafia judge in the Southern Italian city of Bari. He has been responsible for the area's most important indictments regarding organized crime, corruption and trading in human beings. His Guerrieri novels have all risen to top of the bestseller lists in Italy.
