Paperback: A Walk In The Dark (2010) is the second book in the appealing Guido Guerrieri part-legal series set in Bari, Puglia.
When Martina accuses her ex-boyfriend-the son of a powerful local judge-of assault and battery, no witnesses can be persuaded to testify on her behalf, and one lawyer after another refuses to represent her.
Guido Guerrieri knows the case could bring his legal career to a messy end, but he cannot resist the appeal of a hopeless cause. Nor can he deny an attraction to Sister Claudia, the young woman in charge of the shelter where Martina is living, who shares his love of martial arts and his virulent hatred of injustice.
A Walk In The Dark is translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis.
A Walk In The Dark is translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis.
About the author: Gianrico Carofiglio, born in 1961, was an anti-Mafia prosecutor in the southern Italy city of Bari, Puglia, for many years. He has been responsible for some of the most important indictments in the region involving organized crime, corruption and the traffic in human beings. He is now a member of the Italian Senate. He has sold over 2.5 million books and Involuntary Witness, his debut novel and the first in a series with defence lawyer Guido Guerrieri, is in its 49th edition in Italy. It won numerous literary prizes and has been translated into eleven languages.
About the translator: Howard Curtis is one of the top translators working in the UK and the USA and has been translating professionally since 1985. He translates from French, Spanish and Italian, and many of his translations have been awarded or shortlisted for translation prizes. He has mostly translated contemporary fiction, but is particularly pleased to be involved with the Penguin project to retranslate the works of his favourite writer, Georges Simenon.
About the translator: Howard Curtis is one of the top translators working in the UK and the USA and has been translating professionally since 1985. He translates from French, Spanish and Italian, and many of his translations have been awarded or shortlisted for translation prizes. He has mostly translated contemporary fiction, but is particularly pleased to be involved with the Penguin project to retranslate the works of his favourite writer, Georges Simenon.
Rating: 5/5
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