Books by Marco Vichi and Complete Book Reviews
Marco Vichi, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25 (232p) ISBN 978-1-60598-351-6
Set in Florence in the summer of 1963, Vichi’s stellar first in a new mystery series (and his U.S. debut) introduces endearingly melancholic Inspector Bordelli, whose fatigue with life shows in the mirror: “a fifty-three-year-old man... with deep...
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Marco Vichi, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (464p) ISBN 978-1-60598-501-5
Set in December 1965, Vichi’s exceptional third Inspector Bordelli mystery (after 2013’s Death and the Olive Grove) finds the 55-year-old Florentine policeman worried about his looming retirement. Bordelli, who has a compelling need for resolution,...
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Marco Vichi, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-60598-929-7
The catastrophic flood that devastated Florence in 1966, in which scores of people died and some of the city's greatest artistic treasures were destroyed, serves as the backdrop for Bordelli's absorbing fourth mystery featuring wryly witty Insp....
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Marco Vichi, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-60598-448-3
In Vichi’s compelling follow-up to Death in August (2012), set in 1964, the odd and diminutive informer Casimiro comes to Florence and tells a strange story to his friend Inspector Bordelli: he has found a dead body in Fiesole, near a closely...
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