Gianrico Carofiglio

In Carlotto's The Campagna Trail, Inspector Campagna uses an old friendship with notorious drug dealer Roby Pizzo in a Machiavellian attempt to keep the peace. But when an interfering new police chief demands Campagna bring down the Mafioso who heads Pizzo’s gang, Campagna must use every weapon he has to save his job – and his life. Meanwhile in Carofiglio's The Speed of an Angel, a writer in crisis strikes up an unlikely friendship with a mysterious woman he meets in a quiet seaside café. As their conversations deepen, and their obsessions darken, their drug-fuelled relationship begins to spiral, in this haunting tale of damnation and redemption. Finally in De Cataldo's The White Powder Dance, the city police are put on the trail of a baby-faced new graduate in the Milanese banking sector. As the pursuit accelerates through back streets and skyscrapers, it becomes clear that there is more to organised crime than getting your hands dirty.

When Judge Larocca is the subject of corruption allegations, Guerrieri goes against his better instincts and takes the case. After all they had been at school and university together. Helped by Annapaola Doria, a motorbike-riding bisexual private detective who keeps a baseball bat to hand for sticky situations, he discovers the judge's links to the mafia. Larocca is blind to the immorality of his actions but Annapaola makes sure that justice is done, perhaps not in the most orthodox way. Of course Guerrieri cannot stop himself from falling for Annapaola's exotic charms. The novel takes the form of a suspenseful legal thriller but it is much more. It is the story of a judge who , to quote Brothers Karamazov, "...lies to himself and listens to his own lies, so gets to the point where he can no longer distinguish the truth, either in himself or around himself." A man always looking to justify his evil and corrupt behaviour, perhaps an apposite metaphor for Italy itself.

The latest novel from bestselling Gianrico Carofiglio, introducing a new hero, Roberto Marias, once an undercover carabinieri, now a man seeking to heal the wounds of a tormented past.

Counsel for the defence Guido Guerrieri is asked to handle the appeal of Fabio Paolicelli, who has been sentenced to sixteen years for drug smuggling. The odds are stacked against the accused: not only the fact that he initially confessed to the crime but also his past as a neo-Fascist thug. It is only the intervention of Paolicelli's beautiful half-Japanese wife that finally overcomes Guerrieri's reluctance. Matters are further complicated when Guerrieri ends up in bed with her.

It all began with an unusual assignment, a job better suited for Marlowe than for counsel for the defence Guido Guerrieri. Could he find new evidence to force the police to reopen their investigation about the disappearance of Manuela, the daughter of a rich couple living in Bari? The stories of Manuela's druggy university friends don't quite add up. Her best friend, Caterina, too beautiful and certainly too young for Guerrieri, is a temptation he doesn't need. While the investigation proceeds, Guido fights his loneliness by talking to the punching bag hanging in his living-room and by walking the streets of Bari late at night, often visiting a colourful bar owned by a former client and ex-prostitute. She somehow provides the clue that explains Manuela's disappearance.

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 premature and messy end but he cannot resist the appeal of a hopeless cause. Nor 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.

Advokat Guido Guerrieri får en dag besök på sitt kontor av en ung egyptisk kvinna. Hennes vän, Abdou Thiam från Senegal, har blivit anklagad för ett fruktansvärt brott, mordet på en liten pojke, som hittats på botten av en brunn. Abdou är kringvandrande försäljare på stränderna runt Bari, och har flera gånger setts prata med pojken. Bevisen polisen har mot honom är starka. I sitt eget känslomässigt instabila tillstånd efter en skilsmässa, tar Guerrieri emot den alldeles för låga summa pengar som kvinnan kan erbjuda, och lovar att göra vad han kan för Abdou. Åklagaren vill ha en snabb dom, men Guerrieri blir snart övertygad om Abdous oskuld, och försvaret av honom hjälper honom i hans eget sorgearbete. Han konfronteras med småstadsrasism underblåst av den senaste tidens invandring från Afrika, och utnyttjar skickligt kryphålen i det italienska rättsväsendets labyrintliknande irrgångar. På sannolika skäl är mer än en perfekt avvägd thriller, det är en spänningsroman som överskrider genregränser. Den är en kraftig attack mot rasism, och ger en fascinerande inblick i det italienska rättssystemet. Men den är också ett kärleksfullt porträtt av en djupt mänsklig hjälte." Min favorit! Prisbelönad, kritikerhyllad, bästsäljare och framgångsrik tv-serie. Inte undra på att mina förväntningar var höga. Men de infriades - med råge. Jag blev alldeles bortkollrad av den italienske advokaten Guido Guerrieri och hans kamp för rättvisan. En svart invandrare anklagas för mord och bevisen verkar vattentäta. Till en början." Ingalill Mosander"En av Italiens främsta deckarförfattare"Harald Hamrin SvD"På sannolika skäl är en sensation"The Times" ... både annorlunda och mycket bra." Gunilla Wedding, SkånskanGianrico Carofiglio är anti-maffiaåklagare i Bari, en hamnstad i Apulien. Han har varit inblandad i rättegångar inom korruption, organiserad brottslighet och trafficking.

A nine-year-old boy is found murdered at the bottom of a well near a popular beach resort in southern Italy. In what looks like a hopeless case for Guido Guerrieri, counsel for the defence, a Senegalese peddler is accused of the crime. Faced with small-town racism fuelled by the recent immigration from Africa, Guido attempts to exploit the esoteric workings of the Italian courts. More than a perfectly paced legal thriller, this relentless suspense novel transcends the genre. A powerful attack on racism, and a fascinating insight into the Italian judicial process, it is also an affectionate portrait of a deeply humane hero.