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Loading... Gang of Lovers (2015)by Massimo Carlotto
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. another chapter in the alligator series AND the pelligrini series- that's right baby, it's crossover time. buckle up! this was fun. omg this was fun. I can't wait for the next book. ( ) Told from perspective of both the "really bad guy" and the "sort of good guys". Switching points of view, one of which is very unpleasant, makes the book more complicated to read than it should be. I have another unread book by the author and am debating whether to devote the time to it or not. Thus far, my least favorite Italian mystery/thriller writer. no reviews | add a review
PI Marco "the Alligator" Buratti returns in a "raucous, delicious ride" from the celebrated Italian crime writer and author ofBandit Love(Cedar Rapids Gazette). Padua, Italy. An unremarkable man, a husband and father, disappears without a trace. After a few months of searching, the police send his file to the cold cases department to be thrown in with the files of other missing persons. One woman knows the truth about his disappearance, but, being the daughter of a prominent and wealthy Swiss industrialist, she fears coming forward with what she knows: that she was his lover and that there is more to his disappearance than another bored suburban husband running out on his wife. Stricken by guilt, she finally confides in a lawyer who advises her to turn to Marco Buratti, a.k.a. the Alligator, for help.Buratti agrees to assist the woman. Initially, the case of the woman's missing lover seems like a lost cause, but a clue puts the Alligator and his trusted associates, Max the Memory and Beniamino Rossini, on the trail of the unscrupulous and brilliant criminal, Giorgio Pellegrini, protagonist ofThe Goodbye Kiss andAt the End of a Dull Day.The deadly game of chicken in which the good guys and the bad guys are often hard to tell apart is Carlotto's specialty. But good or bad, these men are survivors in a world where the once ironclad criminal codes of conduct are disappearing and new criminal syndicates do vicious battle with old. "A shaded caper and an earnest investigation into the nature of evil that reads like a runaway train, and confirms Carlotto as equal to any of the English-writing czars of noir."--LoveReading "Gang of Lovers is Italian 'hard boiled' noir but with the shell left on."--Crime Scraps Review No library descriptions found. |
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