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Reasonable Doubts by: Gianrico Carofiglio List Price: £8.99 City Travel Guides Price: £6.99 You Save: £2.00 (22%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 853.92 EAN: 9781904738244 ISBN: 1904738249 Label: Bitter Lemon Press Manufacturer: Bitter Lemon Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 275 Publication Date: July 02, 2007 Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press Studio: Bitter Lemon Press Sales Rank: 27731 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Outstanding writerThis is the third book I've read by Carofiglio, and what you need to know is that, although not a lot 'happens' - we are defnitely not in plot-driven thriller territory here - the characters are so convincingly drawn that we get deeply involved, and care about them. For my money, Carofiglio is the outstanding 'crime' writer of today - and astonishingly, his subtleties have survived in the excellent translations. If you like excellent writing, moral ambiguity and character led stories, go out and buy the whole series! Rating:  - Straightforward Enjoyable Italian Legal ThrillerThis Italian bestseller is the third in Carofiglio's series of crime/legal thrillers featuring lawyer Guido Guerrieri. The simple story is set in the somewhat grim eastern port of Bari (yes, I've been there and don't care to return), where the 40ish private attorney plies his trade while fending off a midlife crisis. One day, not long after being dumped by his girlfriend, he is retained by a convicted drug smuggler to represent him in his appeal case. Coming back from a vacation in Montenegro, the man's car was searched, and 40 kilos of cocaine was found, leading to a sixteen year sentence. However, he claims to have confessed only in order to keep his half-Japanese wife out of jail, and disavows any prior knowledge of the drugs. Read More: Rating: - A legal thriller and so much moreThis was a superb read. Guido Guerrieri, a defence counsel, is asked to revisit the case of man sentenced to a long term in prison for drug-smuggling. The legal tale itself is not complex (the book is only 250 pages long), but it is so wonderfully written and has been very well-translated. Guido is a slightly flawed character, but we empathize with him from the outset. And Carofiglio delivers insights brilliantly with his rich writing. While the legalese will likely not test readers looking for some complexity, it would be very difficult to come away, having read this book, with anything other than a great deal of satisfaction. I have kept this review short as I need to rush off and order the two prequels! Read More: Rating: - Gianrico Carofiglio - Reasonable DoubtsReasonable Doubts is the third Guido Guerrieri novel from Carofiglio, and, pleasingly, is every bit as good as the first two. The novel begins with Guerrieri being asked to tackle the appeal of Fabio Paolicelli, who has been sentenced to 16 years after a large quantity of drugs was found in his car on re-entry into the country. Paolicelli has a past as a neo-Fascist, and also initially confessed to the crime - though he later claims this was only in order to stop the police detaining his wife as well. Guerrieri is initially reluctant to take on the case: he and the defendant were involved in an incident in their youth which still leaves Guido bitter. However, Paolicelli seems not this specific incident from his violent past, and eventually, after ... Read More: |
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