{"product_id":"2940169099171","title":"Black August: A Commissario Trotti Mystery","description":"The fourth book in Timothy Williams's critically acclaimed Commissario Trotti  series, originally published in the 1980s. When a brutally battered corpse with a disfigured face turns out to be an old friend of  Commissario Trotti's, he joins the manhunt, despite objections from his superiors.  In 2011, Timothy Williams was selected by the UK's Observer as one of the top 10 modern  European crime novelists because of his work on this long out-of-print series, which Soho is  excited to bring back into print in this attractive new package.    Commissario Trotti of Italy's Polizia di Stato is called to the scene of a brutal murder. Despite the badly disfigured face on the  corpse, Trotti recognizes it as schoolteacher Rosanna Belloni, an old friend of . His superiors warn him off the case, but Trotti is  determined to hunt down the killer.  First he must find Rosanna's missing sister, a known drug addict. But the deeper he digs, the more questions he is forced to ask  himself. Is a recent, unexplained suicide in the River Po connected with the murder? Where does the discovery of a car dredged  up from 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 characterization, Black August is a must-have addition to  Timothy Williams's critically acclaimed Trotti series.","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113958949104,"sku":"2940169099171","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169099171_p0.jpg?v=1763671978","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169099171","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}