Gold, frankincense and dust /
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Author / Creator: | Varesi, Valerio, 1959- author. |
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Uniform title: | Oro, incenso e polvere. English |
Imprint: | London : MacLehose Press, 2013. |
Description: | 260 pages : map ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10075508 |
Other authors / contributors: | Farrell, Joseph, translator. |
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ISBN: | 9781906694364 (hbk.) 1906694362 (hbk.) |
Notes: | Translated from the Italian. |
Summary: | Parma. A multiple pile-up occurs on the autostrada into the city. A truck transporting cattle skids off the road. Dozens of cows and bulls go on the rampage, injured and crazed. In the chaos, the burned body of a young woman is found at the side of the road. Her death has no apparent link to the carnage. Commissario Soneri is assigned the case. It is a welcome distraction: his mercurial lover Angela has decided to pursue other options, leaving him even more morose than usual. The dead woman is identified as Nina Iliescu, a Romanian immigrant whose beauty had enchanted a string of wealthy lovers. Temptress, muse, angel - she was all things to all men. Her murder conceals a crime and a sacrilege, and even in death she has a surprise waiting for Soneri. |
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