A Death In Tuscany
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4.8 • 8 Ratings
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Publisher Description
In the picturesque Tuscan hill town of Scandicci, the body of a girl is discovered. Scantily dressed, she is lying by the edge of the woods. The local police investigate the case - but after a week, they still haven't even identified her, let alone got to the bottom of how she died.
Frustrated by the lack of progress, Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara, head of Florence's elite Squadra Mobile, decides to step in. Because toxins were discovered in the girl's body, many assumed that she died of a self-inflicted drugs overdose. But Ferrara quickly realises that the truth is darker than that: he believes that the girl was murdered.
And when he delves deeper, there are many aspects to the case that convince Ferrara that the girl's death is part of a sinister conspiracy - a conspiracy that has its roots in the very foundations of Tuscan society...
Originally published in Italian as La Loggia Degli Innocenti.
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When a girl's body is discovered in the Tuscan hill town of Scandicci in Giuttari's gripping second novel featuring Chief Supt. Michele Ferrara (after 2011's A Florentine Death), the police assume she's another dead junkie, hardly worth the paperwork. But Ferrara, who heads Florence's Squarda Mobile, becomes obsessed with the girl, who's "little more than a child," and soon proves that she was murdered. The disappearance of Massimo Verga, Ferrara's best friend, complicates the investigation and puts the detective's job at risk when Verga and his married lover are suspected of killing her husband. While a wider criminal network that includes pedophile parties, illegal immigrants, international drug running, political corruption, and the Mafia emerges, the plot never seems overstuffed, even when the two cases intersect. Giuttari, who served as Florence's police chief for seven years, delivers an intriguing view of the Italian police and legal system in "the city of excess."
