Commissario Trotti of Italy's Polizia di Stato is called to the scene of a bruta
l murder. Despite the badly disfigured face on the corpse, Trotti recognizes it
as schoolteacher Rosanna Belloni, an old friend. His superiors warn him off the
case, but Trotti is determined to hunt down the killer.
First he must find Ros
anna's missing sister, a known drug addict. But the deeper he digs, the more que
stions he is forced to ask himself. Is a recent, unexplained suicide in the Rive
r Po connected with the murder? Where does the discovery of a car dredged up fro
m the Delta fit in? Faced with a seemingly unsolvable mystery, Trotti must also
grapple with obstructive colleagues and the problems arising in his private life
.
With its brilliantly realized Italian setting, subtle plotting and fine char
acterization, Black August is a must-have addition to Timothy Williams's critica
lly acclaimed Trotti series.
