New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Bitter Lemon Press 07 July-Sept
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Bitter Lemon Press JULY-SEPT 07

Gianrico Carofiglio Reasonable Doubts Pbk published July 2007 by Bitter Lemon Press at £8.99 ISBN: 1904738249

See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

Guerrieri is asked to handle the appeal of Fabio Paolicelli sentenced to sixteen years for smuggling drugs into Italy. Everything seems stacked against the appeal, not least the fact that Paolicelli initially confessed to the crime. Guerrieri's reluctance to take on the case is intensified by the fact that the accused is not unknown to him. Paolicelli was a notorious neo-Fascist thug. It is only the intervention of Paolicelli's beautiful half-Japanese wife Natsu that finally overcomes Guerrieri's reluctance. When he ends up in bed with her things get really interesting.

Carofiglio, born 1961, is an anti-mafia judge in the Southern Italian city of Bari. He has been responsible for the area's most important indictments regarding organized crime, corruption and trading in human beings. His Guerrieri novels have all risen to top of the bestseller lists in Italy.

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Petra Hammesfahr The Sinner Pbk published September 2007 by Bitter Lemon Press at £8.99 ISBN: 1904738257

See Review by Cath Staincliffe author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder
See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series

Cora Bender killed a man on a sunny summer afternoon by the lake and in full view of her family and friends. Why? What could have caused this quiet, lovable young mother to stab a stranger in the throat, again and again, until she was pulled off his body? For the local police it was an open-and-shut case. Cora confessed; there was no shortage of witnesses. But Police Commissioner Rudolf Grovian refused to close the file and started his own maverick investigation. So begins the slow unravelling of Cora's past, a harrowing descent into a woman's private hell. Hailed as Germany's Patricia Highsmith for her bittersweet thrillers where the innocence of childhood collides with horrors enacted by adults, Petra Hammesfahr has written a dark, spellbinding novel which stayed at the top of the nation's bestseller list for fifteen months.

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Leonardo Padura Havana Red Pbk published August 2007 by Bitter Lemon Press at £6.99 ISBN: 1904738303
Artwork by: Cover design: Killian Strong. Photo: © Untitled
See Review by Bob Cornwell

This is the first of the Havana quartet featuring Lieutenant Mario Conde, a tropical Marlowe. A body is found in a Havana park. A young transvestite dressed in a beautiful red evening dress, strangled. The victim had fled his family, finding refuge with Marques, an author living alone surrounded only by books, his house in ruins. In the baking heat of the Havana summer Conde investigates, moving through a Cuban reality where nothing is what it seems. Padura's masterful prose and eye for detail evoke the Havana that millions of tourists have come to know: crumbling architecture, peeling paintwork and a pulsating, searing sensuality beneath the tropical sun.

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