Young Beasts At Play

Longo, Davide

£9.99

September 2008. Commissario Arcadipane arrives at the scene of a macabre discovery: the bones of twelve men and women buried in the countryside near Torino. By the next morning, a task force specialising in mass graves from WWII is already in place. But something doesn’t feel right: one of the femurs shows signs of an operation that couldn’t have taken place before the seventies. Suspecting a cover-up, Arcadipane launches his own investigation, enlisting his old mentor, Corso Bramard, long retired, and Isa, a young officer still haunted by the unexplained death of her father. These mismatched allies – one at last at peace, one jaded to the point of breakdown and one under a permanent disciplinary cloud – will unveil a cruel political conspiracy that someone wants covered up for the second time.

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Publish Date: 28/04/2022
ISBN: 9781529408218 Category: Tag:

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“A superior police procedural” Mark Sanderson, The Times Crime Club

“Northern Italy’s answer to Inspector Montalbano” Alessandro Baricco

September 2008. Commissario Arcadipane arrives at the scene of a macabre discovery: the bones of twelve men and women buried in the countryside near Torino.

By the next morning, a task force specialising in mass graves from WWII is already in place. But something doesn’t feel right: one of the femurs shows signs of an operation that couldn’t have taken place before the seventies.

Suspecting a cover-up, Arcadipane launches his own investigation, enlisting his old mentor, Corso Bramard, long retired, and Isa, a young officer still haunted by the unexplained death of her father.

These mismatched allies — one at last at peace, one jaded to the point of breakdown and one under a permanent disciplinary cloud — will unveil a cruel political conspiracy that someone wants covered up for the second time.

Translated from the Italian by Silvester Mazzarella

Additional information

Weight 280 g
Dimensions 196 × 128 × 28 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

320

Language

English

Edition

|Paperback original

Dewey

853.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K