Description:
Private Detective Cantini is brutally honest, smokes too much, exercises too little, eats on the run, and is a messy housekeeper. She has a stream of Bolognese clients asking her to investigate the affairs of unhappily married couples.
Brief description: Taylor Corse is an associate professor of English at Arizona State University. Professor Corse has written extensively about the literary culture of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, including such writers as John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Anne Conway, Alexander Pope, and Tobias Smollett. He has also translated works from Latin and Italian, most recently the selected poetry of Ferruccio Benzoni.
Review Quotes:
This delicious novel is a genre all its own -- Italian neorealism meets feminist noir. I can't wait for more Verasani in English.
-- Sara Paretsky