Death in Sardinia

by Marco Vichi

Commissario Bordelli (3)

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In 1960s Florence, a loan shark is murdered in this moody mystery featuring "a disillusioned anti-hero who is difficult to forget" (Andrea Camilleri).
Florence, 1965. A man is found murdered, a pair of scissors stuck through his throat. Only one thing is known about him—he was a loan shark, who ruined and blackmailed the vulnerable men and women who would come to him for help.


Inspector Bordelli prepares to launch a murder investigation. But the case will be a tough one for him, arousing show more mixed emotions: the desire for justice conflicting with a deep hostility for the victim. And he is missing his young police sidekick, Piras, who is convalescing at his parents' home in Sardinia.


But Piras hasn't been recuperating for long before he too has a mysterious death to deal with . . .

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Bellissimo, amo Bordelli e le sue infinite storie, la sua umanità e il suo modo di essere.
Florencia, diciembre de 1965. Se descubre el cadáver de un hombre con unas tijeras clavadas en la nuca. El muerto, el «recién llegado» como despectivamente lo conocen sus vecinos por su procedencia, ejerce de usurero, una profesión tan rentable como desagradable. El comisario Bordelli, dudando entre la necesidad de hacer justicia y una profunda hostilidad hacia la víctima, debe iniciar la investigación en base a los pocos indicios encontrados y con una lista inacabable de enemigos. Diotivede, el forense, ofrecerá la primera pista del rompecabezas. Y Bordelli, ante la ausencia de su compañero sardo Piras, se enfrentará solo a un asunto siniestro que revelará los entresijos más oscuros de la realidad italiana.
Florencia, 1965. Un hombre es hallado asesinado en su casa: el asesino le ha clavado unas tijeras en la nuca. Se sabe cuál era la profesión del muerto, una profesión tan rentable como desagradable: era un usurero y la gente, como queriendo subrayar que no era nacido en la ciudad, le llamaba "el recién llegado". De la primera inspección no emerge ningún indicio significativo. La primera pieza del rompecabezas la ofrecerá la autopsia realizada por el forense Diotivede. El comisario Bordelli, encargado de arrija algo de luz sobre un delito que suscita en él sentimientos contrapuestos, se dispone a iniciar una investigación que se presenta, como mínimo, ardua.

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Canonical title
Death in Sardinia
Original title
Il nuovo venuto
Original publication date
2004
People/Characters
Commissario Bordelli; Pietrino Piras; Rosa; Diotevede; Botta; Toto (show all 11); Commissario Inzipone; Odoardo; Raffaele; Pintus; Musillo - Lawyer
Important places
Firenze
Epigraph
God, too, is starting not to listen
              Anonymous, twenty-first century

For your good luck
may the moon shine bright your every night,
may you never know... (show all) sorrow,
may the sun light up your every day,
such is my good wish,
from now until God wills.

                   
Grazia Deledda
Dedication
To Vittoria
First words
Florence, 12 December 1965

Sergeant Baragli lay in the bed nearest the window, a small tube stuck in his arm.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It sounded like a bombing raid; 1966 had just begun
Original language
Italian

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
853.914Literature & rhetoricItalian, Romanian & related literaturesItalian fiction1900-20th Century1945-1999
LCC
PS3602 .E37 .V534Language and LiteratureAmerican literature
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