Suspicion / Laura Grimaldi ; translated by Robin Pickering-Iazzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grimaldi, Laura.

Contributor:

Pickering-Iazzi, Robin.

Standardized Title:

Sospetto. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murder--Fiction.

Murder.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, Terrace Books, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the shadow of the "Monster of Florence, " a serial murderer who has terrorized Italy for seventeen years, Laura Grimaldi sets her tense psychological thriller Suspicion -a noir mystery of a city transformed by fear, and of friendships and family ties twisted by uncertainty and dark speculation. Grimaldi, whose hardboiled mysteries of the 1950s earned her the title "Italy's queen of crime, " turns here to the deeper, more elusive and disturbing questions that haunt human affairs. For years Matilde, the widow of a prominent Florentine doctor, has lived alone with her eccentric middle-aged son, Enea. When the police pay a call, the balance between mother and son is shifted just subtly enough to make Matilde prey to suspicions and doubts that grow ever more corrosive, ever harder to conceal and more dangerous to reveal. In the literary tradition of such mystery writers as Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell, Grimaldi creates an atmosphere charged with suspense as the daily lives and routines of her characters, infected with suspicion, begin to rearrange themselves around a few frightening facts and infinite monstrous possibilities. Matilde's efforts to decipher Enea's secretive movements and occupations appear perfectly sensible and defensible through Grimaldi's deft shifts between mother and son-and another, chillingly detached perspective on the gruesome murders. Grimaldi's readers will find themselves as subject to misinterpretation and doubt, to sympathies and suspicions as her Florentine characters, and spellbound until the book's final page.

Contents:

Intro

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786612424250

9781282424258

1282424254

9780299188634

0299188639

OCLC:

646875382