I am pleased to discover another Italian author who based his novels in the city of Florence not unlike the Michele Ferrara series by Michele Giuttari which I enjoy reading immensely.
Death in August (2011) is the first Inspector Bordelli mystery set in Florence in the year 1963. According to the blurb, Inspector Bordelli spends his days on routine work, and his nights tormented by the heat and mosquitoes. Suddenly, one night, a telephone call gives him a new sense of purpose: the suspected death of a wealthy Signora. Bordelli rushes to her hilltop villa, and picks the locks. The old woman is lying on her bed - apparently killed by an asthma attack, though her medicine has been left untouched. Thus, the inspector begins a murder investigation. It is obvious that the motive of the murder is money and that the obvious suspects are the wealthy lady's money-hungry nephews. The police know they did it and the nephews know the police have no proof simply because their alibis are watertight. At this point, how do the police uncover the mechanism of the murder?
If you enjoy Michele Giuttari's Inspector Michele Ferrara series, you will also enjoy this classic Tuscan police procedural with an inspector as delightful and down-to-earth as the city itself.
Death in August was originally published in Italian as Il Commissario Bordelli and translated into the English by Stephen Sartarelli.
About the author: Marco Vichi was born in Florence in 1957. The author of eleven novels and two collections of short stories, he has also edited crime anthologies, written screenplays, music lyrics and for radio, written for Italian newspapers and magazines, and collaborated on and directed various projects for humanitarian causes.
There are four novels - one of which won the Scerbanenco, Rieti, Camaiore and Azzeccagarbugli prices in Italy - and two short stories featuring Inspector Bordelli. Marco Vichi lives in the Chianti region of Tuscany.
Find out more at www.marcovichi.it
About the translator: Stephen Sartarelli, born in Ohio, is a poet and an award-winning translator. He is also the author of three books of poetry. He has translated the Inspector Montalbano detective novels written by Andrea Camilleri and lives in France.
Rating: 5/5
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