New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Bitter Lemon Press 08 July-Sept

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Bitter Lemon Press JULY-SEPT 08

Gianluca Morozzi Blackout Pbk published July 2008 by Bitter Lemon Press at £8.99 ISBN: 190473832X

See Review by Ian Morson Author of Falconer books and short listed for 1999 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Dagger
Bologna in August. Unbearable heat, an empty city. Claudia is a young student in a hurry to return home from her work as a waitress and get out of the skimpy uniform she hates. Tomas is a young man on his way to elope to Amsterdam with his girlfriend Francesca. Aldo is a husband and father with an uncanny resemblance to Elvis Presley, anxious to get to an apartment filled with guilty secrets. All three have an urgent need to be somewhere else. Instead they are trapped in a lift in a deserted building on a holiday weekend. Like three wasps in an upturned glass... and one of the trio is a serial killer.
This dark, twist-packed psychological thriller in the style of Phonebooth has been adapted as a US film to be released in the autumn of 2008, starring Amber Tamblyn and directed by cult Mexican auteur Rigoberto Castañeda.

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Giampero Rigosi Night Bus Pbk published July 2008 by Bitter Lemon Press at £8.99 ISBN: 1904738354
Artwork by: Cover design: Killian Strong. Photo: © Getty
See Review by Bob Cornwell
See Review by Cath Staincliffe author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries and the series creator of TV Blue Murder

Ann Goldstein (Translator)
Leila is both young and beautiful. She drugs the men she picks up and robs them. However, problems arise when her latest client has mistakenly acquired a document that could compromise certain parties willing to kill to get it back. She becomes the hunted and while on the run meets Francesco, bus driver ad gambling addict, who agrees to help her. Bologna is the scene of the chase that ensues. Corrupt politicians, a decrepit cop and the secret service all share the limelight in this novel where characters' paths cross, merge and eventually unravel.

Leila is young, beautiful and a hustler. She robs hapless men picked up in the trendy nightclubs of Bologna. Easy money, until she ends up with a document at the centre of a carefully crafted plot of political blackmail. In an atmosphere of intense underworld paranoia she is pursued simultaneously by two secret service operatives, a goon hired by the blackmailer and the police. They are after the document and a suitcase full of dollars meant to be the pay-off. Chased through the streets of Bologna she comes across Francesco, a bus driver and gambling addict who spends most of his time running from the Bear, a terrifying debt collector for the mob. Suitcases and blackmail notes change hands at a frenetic pace against a background of murder and other violence beyond the fringe. A savagely funny crime adventure with an Italian twist.

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Teresa Solana A Not So Perfect Crime Pbk published September 2008 by Bitter Lemon Press at £8.99 ISBN: 1904738346

Another day in Barcelona, another slimy politician's wife is suspected of infidelity. Lluis Font discovers a portrait of his wife in an exhibition that leads him to conclude he is being cuckolded by the artist. Concerned only about the potential political fallout, he hires twins Eduard and Pep, private detectives with a supposed knack for helping the wealthy with their 'dirty laundry'. Their office is adorned with false doors leading to non-existent private rooms, a mysterious secretary who is always away and a broken laptop computer picked up on the street. The case turns ugly when Font's wife is found poisoned by a marron glace from a box of sweets delivered anonymously. This is a deftly plotted, bitingly funny mystery novel. It is a satire of Catalan politics and a fascinating insight into the life and habits of Barcelona's inhabitants, diurnal and nocturnal.

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