Out of Season
Antonio Manzini
After
reading Adam's Rib by
Antonio Manzini last year, I was thrilled to get an ARC of Out
of Season. Deputy Chief of
Police Rocco Schiavone is still working in the small town of Aosta in
northern Italy after being sent there as punishment by higher-ups in
the police administration. Schiavone doesn't like the city any more
than the last time we saw him. He still misses his friends in Rome,
and he still hates the wet and often snowy weather in Aosta. When it
starts to become too much, he has to dip into the desk drawer in his
office for a secret puff or two of marijuana.
In Out of Season, he and his colleagues have been called in to investigate a crash involving a cargo van with stolen number plates. While trying to find out more about the two victims of the accident he learns that a local teenage girl, Chiara Berguet has gone missing. Chiara is the daughter of a local construction company owner, and while her parents try to keep the police out of the loop, Schiavone has every intention of investigating her disappearance. Hopefully, he will be able to find her alive.
Rocco Schiavone has is own definition of justice, which doesn't always win him friends in high places but, he tries to do what he thinks is right. And when he isn't out fighting crime, he has a mess of a personal life to contend with. Manzini has created a character who is sometimes bad-tempered, dealing with ghosts of the past and complicated relationships, but likable all the same.
In Out of Season, he and his colleagues have been called in to investigate a crash involving a cargo van with stolen number plates. While trying to find out more about the two victims of the accident he learns that a local teenage girl, Chiara Berguet has gone missing. Chiara is the daughter of a local construction company owner, and while her parents try to keep the police out of the loop, Schiavone has every intention of investigating her disappearance. Hopefully, he will be able to find her alive.
Rocco Schiavone has is own definition of justice, which doesn't always win him friends in high places but, he tries to do what he thinks is right. And when he isn't out fighting crime, he has a mess of a personal life to contend with. Manzini has created a character who is sometimes bad-tempered, dealing with ghosts of the past and complicated relationships, but likable all the same.
Thanks to LibraryThing and Harper Collins for allowing me to read
this book in exchange for an honest review.
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