When magistrate Matteo Arconti's namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is found dead outside the court buildings in Piazza Clodio, it's a coded warning to the authorities - a clear message of defiance and intimidation.
Commissioner Alec Blume, all too familiar with Rome's criminal underclass, knows little of the Calabrian mafia currently under investigation by the magistrate. Handing control of the murder inquiry to his partner Caterina Mattiola, Blume goes in search of answers, setting off on a journey into the deep dark south of Italy...
- ISBN10 1408824493
- ISBN13 9781408824498
- Publish Date 1 April 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 July 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Pages 368
- Language English