DEATH IN AUGUST: Book 1 of 5: Inspector Bordelli Mysteries
by Marco Vichi
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Brand New/Brand New
- ISBN 10
- 1605983519
- ISBN 13
- 9781605983516
- Seller
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Mission, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Death in August is a book with an identity crisis: it is a psychological novel dressed up as a police procedural but marketed as a cozy mystery novel. The original Italian books, less bound by genre, have dark covers reflecting the dark themes in the series. The English translations offered as Kindle editions sport cozy mystery watercolor covers with a nostalgic tint that completely misrepresent the books' contents. The series is set in the past, in the 1960s to be precise, and it is set there for a reason: to allow Italians to laugh, sometimes wryly, at their former selves, with the benefit of hindsight from the perspective of the world today looking back on a seemingly ancient time. So much social, political and economic change has occurred since the 1960s that looking back on those years really does feel like we are observing an ancient culture.
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- Bookseller
- Darleen Billy (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 229311
- Title
- DEATH IN AUGUST
- Author
- Marco Vichi
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Brand New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1605983519
- ISBN 13
- 9781605983516
- Publisher
- Pegasus Crime is an Imprint of Pegasus Books LLC
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011
- Pages
- 207 pages
- Keywords
- Death in August, Marco Vichi, Pegasus Books LLC, BOOK 1 OF 5: Inspector Bordelli Mysteries, Mystery, Historical Mystery,