Created by Tobias Jones
If you’re in a jam, when in Rome…
Give CASTAGNETTI, a private eye working out of Parma, in northern Italy, although he’s willing to travel.
But be carefull– “Casta” is not your typical bon vivant Italian gentleman detective–he’s no smooth-talking, well-dressed chick magnet going on (and on) about endless lovingly prepared and lengthy meals, although he will cop to a taste for booze and women.
No, he’s cynical and angry (and the narrator of his own adventures), a sometimes violent and charm-free bruiser with a shaved head and plenty of attitude, not afraid to speak his mind, sickened by the systematic injustice and malfeasance he sees all around him, particularly among the elite of Italian society–although he’s not always so fussy on how he works his own cases.
An orphan who grew up hard, then, but he’s patient and disciplined enough to keep bees as a hobby (a passion he shares with that Holmes guy), admiring them for their neatly run and civil society, where everyone knows their place… and the rules.
But if he takes your case, he will get the job done.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tobias Jones is a prize-winning British author and investigative journalist, who first moved to Italy in 1999 and has published several not-always-complimentary non-fiction books on that country, including The Dark Heart of Italy, Utopian Dreams, and , a true crime account of an Italian serial killer. He lives in Parma, Italy.
UNDER OATH
- “A fast-talking, pocket-sized box-ticker of a private-dick novel… Castagnetti will be back, no danger: he is too good a creation to be restricted to a single case.”
— The Guardian on The Salati Case
NOVELS
- The Salati Case (2009)Â |Â Buy this book
- White Death (2012)Â Â |Â Buy this book
- Death of a Showgirl (2013)Â |Â Buy this bookÂ
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
YAY!!!!!!!!!
Impressive! The book is engaging and has a logical plot.