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Death and the Olive Grove

Inspector Bordelli, Book 2

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Death and the Olive Grove

By: Marco Vichi, Stephen Sartarelli - translation
Narrated by: Tim Bruce
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The second novel in the Inspector Bordelli series set in 1960s Florence - the detective must race to unmask a particularly brutal killer.

April 1964, but spring hasn't quite sprung. The bad weather seems suited to nothing but bad news. And bad news is coming to the police station. First, Bordelli's friend Casimiro, who insists he's discovered the body of a man in a field above Fiesole. Bordelli races to the scene but doesn't find any sign of a corpse.

Only a couple of days later, a little girl is found at Villa Ventaglio. She has been strangled, and there is a horrible bite mark on her belly. Then another little girl is found murdered, with the same macabre signature. And meanwhile Casimiro has disappeared without a trace. The investigation marks the start of one of the darkest periods of Bordelli's life: a nightmare without end, as black as the sky above Florence.

©2003 Ugo Guanda Editore (part of GeMs) (P)2018 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Crime Fiction Fiction Crime Suspense Mystery

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Unlike other reviewers I thought the use of British regional accents was a brilliant touch. The Sardinian in particular with his unmistakably Northern Irish lilt standing for the strong Sardinian accent ( two island peoples with their own strongly developed sense of identity). My only criticism, and it is minor, is that the reader occasionally mispronounces Italian words and place names generally by putting the stresses in the wrong place.

Another clever and well structured Bordelli classic

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