Already an international hit, a sly, sizzling mystery set in the Italian Alps, the first in a sensational crime series.Already an international hit, a sly, sizzling mystery set in the Italian Alps, the first in a sensational crime series.The dark flanks of the Alps tower over everything. Wind whistles through the fir trees. An expanse of ice and snow with no end in sight. A growing stain. A mess of flesh and blood. A corpse buried six inches under the snow.Enter Rocco Schiavone, Deputy Police Chief and a man who has more beautiful women in his bed than sensible shoes under it. He’s stuck in this backwards Alpine town after getting on the wrong side of the wrong people and longs for the fritto misto, cobbled streets and lucky breaks of his beloved Rome. He hates this place and the provincial locals almost as much as his superiors for their petty rules and for exiling him here. On top of that, he’s got a body to deal with and this mangled corpse is “a pain in the ass, number 10 on the scale, summa cum laude”…There is blood on the black run and nothing to identify the victim but a tattoo of Luisa Pec, owner of a bar popular with the locals and a pair of blue eyes popular with Rocco. Was it a crime of passion? Or of jealousy? And how are the mafia involved? Rocco Schivone is on the case, the first in a sensational new crime series.‘At last a detective who’s not haunted by personal demons or soaked in booze, a man who may not be entirely honest – indeed, you could call him corrupt as well as adulterous – but who glories in his job of solving crimes. He’s a coarse, violent and engaging policeman who would not be out of place in a James Ellroy masterpiece. The tale is deftly told with sharp, cynical dialogue. Let’s hear more of Schiavone.’ Daily Mail‘Antonio Manzini has created an Italian detective to rival Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano with deputy chief Rocco Schiavone’ GQ‘An arresting murder mystery’ Monocle‘The ranks of impressive Euro Noir novelists is swelled by the gritty Antonio Manzini, whose Black Run may sport epigraphs from Schilller and Mayakovsky, but underlines its genre-credentials with a superstructure of diamond-hard crime writing … this is lacerating stuff’ Barry Forshaw, Financial Times‘Forget Montalbano. Commisario Rocco Schivone is grievous, coarse, violent … Wonderful, heartbreaking’ L’Uomo Vogue‘A writing style that captivates’ La Gioia‘Corrupt and ingenious, Rocco Schiavone echoes Dudley Smith from L.A. Confidential … Cinematic and literary’ La Stampa‘Rocco Schivone is as bad a cop as Lt. Kojak. Dishonest, potentially violent, intolerant of the rules, but he also has a talent for the job he does … an unusual character … Noir with a touch of dark irony’ Repubblica‘Surly, moody, individualistic, unconventional, corrupt, abusive, with a dark past, Rocco Schiavone seems to come from the dark metropolis of a novel by James Ellroy’ L’Indice‘Manzini devotes more space to his characters than to events; and the detective story is a pretext for talking brilliantly about the Italian society.’ Andrea CamilleriAntonio Manzini is an actor, screenwriter, director, and the author of murder mysteries featuring Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone. He lives in Italy.• The first of this new crime series, Black Run was a top twenty bestseller in Italy. The second book, Adam’s Rib, is also an Italian bestseller, and will be published by 4th Estate in 2016.• It is ideal escapism with an irresistible and complex lead character, pacy plot, a dash of irony, a few sultry love interests, and an attractive Italian backdrop.• British readers have been lapping up international crime, demonstrated by the success of writers such as Ian Rankin (over 8 million copies sold), Donna Leon (over a million copies sold), Jo Nesbø (more than 2.5 million copies sold), Henning Mankell (more than 1.5 million copies sold), Andrea Camilleri (over 400,000 copies sold), and D. A. Mishani.• The novel has been sold in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and Greece, with more countries to come. Manzini is set to become a truly international sensation.• 4th Estate has huge ambition for this new crime series. We will use our HarperCollins genre and consumer networks globally to promote, riding off other authors as diverse as Agatha Christie, Lauren Beukes and Val McDermid.Competition: The Hit (Leone Scamarcio 3); Darkness For The Bastards Of Pizzofalcone; Big Italy (Inspector Trotti Book 5); The Bastards Of Pizzofalcone (World Noir); The Mystery Of The Three Orchids (Pushkin Vertigo). Nadia Dalbuono;Maurizio de Giovanni; Timothy Williams; Augusto De Angelis;
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