{"product_id":"suspicion-hardcover","title":"Suspicion - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaura Grimaldi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the shadow of the \"Monster of Florence,\" a serial murderer who has terrorized Italy for seventeen years, Laura Grimaldi sets her tense psychological thriller \u003ci\u003eSuspicion\u003c\/i\u003e--a noir mystery of a city transformed by fear, and of friendships and family ties twisted by uncertainty and dark speculation. Grimaldi, whose hardboiled mysteries of the 1950s earned her the title \"Italy's queen of crime,\" turns here to the deeper, more elusive and disturbing questions that haunt human affairs.\u003cbr\u003e For years Matilde, the widow of a prominent Florentine doctor, has lived alone with her eccentric middle-aged son, Enea. When the police pay a call, the balance between mother and son is shifted just subtly enough to make Matilde prey to suspicions and doubts that grow ever more corrosive, ever harder to conceal and more dangerous to reveal. In the literary tradition of such mystery writers as Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell, Grimaldi creates an atmosphere charged with suspense as the daily lives and routines of her characters, infected with suspicion, begin to rearrange themselves around a few frightening facts and infinite monstrous possibilities.\u003cbr\u003e Matilde's efforts to decipher Enea's secretive movements and occupations appear perfectly sensible and defensible through Grimaldi's deft shifts between mother and son--and another, chillingly detached perspective on the gruesome murders. Grimaldi's readers will find themselves as subject to misinterpretation and doubt, to sympathies and suspicions as her Florentine characters, and spellbound until the book's final page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Grimaldi is managing editor for the Italian publisher, Il Saggiatore. She is internationally regarded for her work as a writer, critic, and translator. The author of ten novels, including \u003ci\u003eMonsieur Bovary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIl Sospetto (Suspicion)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLa Colpa (Guilt)\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLa Paura (Fear)\u003c\/i\u003e, her books have been translated into nine languages. She has also translated into Italian the work of Ernest Hemingway, E.L. Doctorow, Scott Turow, and Zadie Smith. Robin Pickering-Iazzi, professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is the author, editor, and translator of many books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 8.83 x 5.31 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 11, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47266535637241,"sku":"9780299188603","price":25.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/0uNJaooZPJ9780299188603.webp?v=1768851881","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/suspicion-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}