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The Pope’s DaughterDario FoTranslated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar

Lucrezia Borgia is one of the mostvilified women in modern history.The daughter of a notoriouspope, she was twice betrothedbefore the age of eleven andthrice married—one husband was forced to declare himselfimpotent and thereby unfit, and another was murdered byLucrezia’s own brother, CesareBorgia. She is cast in the role of murderess, temptress,incestuous lover, loose woman,femme fatale par excellence.

But there are two sides to everystory.

Lucrezia Borgia is the only woman in history to have served as the head of theCatholic Church. She successfully administered several of Renaissance Italy’smost thriving cities, founded one of the world’s first credit unions, and was a generous patron of the arts. She was mother to a prince and to a cardinal. She was a devoted wife to the Prince of Ferrara, and the lover of the poetPietro Bembo. She was a child of the Renaissance and in many ways theworld’s first modern woman.

Nobel laureate, Dario Fo, reveals Lucrezia’s humanity, her passion for life, her compassion for others, and her skill at navigating around her family’sevildoings. The Borgias are unrivalled for the range and magnitude of theirpolitical machinations and opportunism. Fo’s brilliance rests in his renderingtheir story as a shocking mirror image of the uses and abuses of power in ourown time. Lucrezia herself becomes a model for how to survive and rise abovethose abuses.

Marketing and Publicity• House of Cards meets Macbeth meets Wolf Hall in this tale of political maneuvering and powerful families• National print review coverage• Galley giveaway competitions• Regional interest: Italy, Renaissance, Rome• Reading group guide available

Comparative titles: Bring Up The Bodies and Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel; Baltasar and Blimundaby Jose Saramago; Blood and Beauty: The Borgias by Sarah Dunant.

On sale: August 4 • Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 97816094527425¼ x 8¼ • 208 pages • $16.00/£9.99 • World English • ebook isbn: 9781609452841

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“Fo is a kind of medieval jester, and here he entertainingly describes the manyvirtues of that grand dame of the Renaissance, Lucrezia Borgia.”—El País (Spain)

“In this novel, Fo reveals Lucrezia’s humanity, thus liberating her from the stereotypes of wanton, incestuous woman and placing her into properhistorical context and into her day-to-day life.”—The Huffington Post (Italy)

“Dario Fo takes the image that has been sent down to us all the way from John Ford’s Tis a Pity She’s a Whore through Victor Hugo’s play LucreziaBorgia to a slew of the recent popular biographies and turns it inside out.”—La Repubblica (Italy)

Born near Lago Maggiore in Italy in 1926, Dario Fois an actor, playwright, comedian, director, songwriterand political campaigner. His first one-act play wasproduced in 1958 and since then he has written, directedand acted in over forty plays and theatrical productions.In 1997 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.In the words of the Nobel Prize committee: “He ifanyone merits the epithet of jester in the true meaning

of that word. With a blend of laughter and gravity he opens our eyes to abusesand injustices in society and also the wider historical perspective in which they can be placed.” The Pope’s Daughter is his first novel.

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Mayumi and the Seaof HappinessJennifer Tseng

Books are Mayumi’s one source of true pleasure. Forty-one yearsold, disenchanted wife and dutifulmother, her work at the townlibrary on a small island off thecoast of New England feeds herpassion for reading and providesher with occasions for wryobservations on human folly, but it does little to remedy themundanity of her life. That is, untilthe day she issues a library cardto a shy seventeen-year-old boyand swiftly succumbs to a sexualobsession that subverts the way shesees her work, family, the islandshe lives on, and ultimately herself.

All too conscious of her growing attraction to the young man yet wary ofthe consequences of acting upon her impulses, Mayumi is hesitant at first. Shebefriends Violet, the young man’s mother, in an attempt to be close to him whilemaintaining a safe physical distance. But her obsession gathers force and after a season of overlong glances and nervous conversation in the library, Mayumiquietly propositions the boy. Her life is radically enriched by the few hours sheshares with the young man each week. As their relationship deepens, and theybegin to share opinions about the books they love and the dreams that animatethem, ending the affair seems as impossible as it is imperative.

Exquisitely written and compulsively readable, Mayumi and the Sea of Happinessis equal parts wry confession and serious meditation. At its most anxious it’s a book about time, at its most ecstatic it’s a deeply human story about passion and pleasure.

Marketing and Publicity• National print review coverage• Library marketing• Regional interest: New England, Martha’s Vineyard, Islands• Book group marketing and reading group guide available • Social media campaign and galley giveaway on Shelf Awareness and Goodreads

Comparative titles: The Professor by Terry Castle; Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller; You DeserveNothing by Alexander Maksik; The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud; Ancient Light by JohnBanville

On sale: May 26 • Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 97816094526985¼ x 8¼ • 272 pages • $17.00/£10.99 • World English • ebook isbn: 9781609452780

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It began at the library. While the young man waited quietly to be helped,I stood neatly in thrall to the world outside the window. Momijigari wasending; leaves were falling in drifts like snow. Blackcaps were eating thetrees, striking the bark with their beaks then rapidly chewing it, in thatannual burlesque of sheer appetite I’ve always found vulgar. When Iturned, he cleared his throat and asked for a library card. He explainedwith darting, downcast eyes that although he’d been coming to the librarywith his mother since he was a child, he’d never had his own card. Therewas something in his manner—softness, reverence, a hesitation in theface—that is peculiar to a son close to his mother. Doesn’t intimacyfoster reverence more completely than anything that can be taught? AsI handed him the form and then watched as he filled it in—his fingersfumbling a bit with the tiny pencil—I didn’t think of having him yet, Isimply gaped at his beauty. I had the thought: he is out of reach, a thoughtthat, had I been younger, might have spurred me on, but in middle age,told me to retreat.

Jennifer Tseng’s first book The Man With My Facewon the 2005 Asian American Writers’ Workshop’sNational Poetry Manuscript Competition and a 2006PEN American Center Open Book Award. Her secondbook Red Flower, White Flower, winner of the MarickPress Poetry Prize, features Chinese translations by Mengying Han and Aaron Crippen. Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness is her debut novel. She works at the West Tisbury Library on Martha’s Vineyard.

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VenetiaRoberto TiraboschiTranslated from the Italian by Katherine Gregor

In the twelfth century AD, Venice is little more than anagglomeration of small islandssnatched from the muddy tides.The magnificent and powerfulSerene Republic is yet to be born.Here, in this northern backwater,a group of artisans have proventhemselves to be unrivalled in anart form that produces works ofsuch astounding beauty that manyconsider it mystical in nature and think its practitionerspossessed of otherworldly gifts.They are glassmakers. Prescientlyaware of the power they wieldand the role they will play in theVenice of the future, the Venetian

glassmakers inhabit a world of esoteric practices and secret knowledge thatthey protect at all costs.

Into this world steps Edgardo d’Arduino, a cleric and a professional copyist.Edgardo’s eyesight has begun to waver, but he has heard stories, perhapslegends, that in Venice, city of glassmakers, there exists a stone, the lapides adlegendum, that can restore one’s sight. When a series of horrific crimes shakesthe cloistered world of the glassmakers, Edgardo realizes that there is muchmore at stake than his failing vision.

Equal parts The Name of the Rose and The Da Vinci Code, Roberto Tiraboschi’sEnglish-language debut is a gripping historical thriller and a magnificentrecreation of Venice in the Middle Ages.

Marketing and Publicity• National print review coverage• Regional interest: Italy, Venice, Middle ages• Reading group guide available

Comparative titles: The Glassblower from Murano by Marina Fiorato; The Name of the Rose byUmberto Eco; The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

On sale: May 5 • Historical Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 97816094526505¼ x 8¼ • 288 pages • $17.00/£10.99 • World English • ebook isbn: 9781609452667

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From Venetia

The men looked at one another, terrified.“These eyes are the color of hell,” someone cried. “It is the work of

Beelzebub!” They immediately made the sign of the cross. No one had ever seen

such horror. Gouged out eyes, hands cut off, men hanged, and womenburned at the stake were commonplace, but that fixed gaze and the icylight of the stones penetrated one’s soul like an augury of death, a curse,the Apocalypse foretold. Who could have done this to the hapless Balbo?

Roberto Tiraboschi was born in Bergamo (Italy) and lives between Rome and Venice. Screenwriter and playwright, he has worked with Nobel laureateDario Fo and written screenplays for Italian directors,including Marco Pontecorvo, Silvio Soldini, LilianaCavani, among others. His novels, Sonno and Sguardo 11, have enjoyed critical and commercialsuccess in Italy. Venetia is the first of his novels to bepublished in English.

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The World is a WeddingWendy Jones

It is 1926. Wilfred Price, purveyorof superior funerals, is newlymarried to the beautiful (andpregnant) Flora Myffanwy, but asmuch as he loves Flora, he sensesher distance from him. Are marriageand fatherhood going to be verydifferent from how Wilfredimagined?

His brief and painful marriage toGrace is long behind him. Grace has fled to London, where she isworking as a chambermaid at theluxurious Ritz Hotel. But Grace has a secret, one that can’t behidden forever and binds her to her old life in Wales.

Despite Wilfred’s earnest effort to embrace the future, he is beginning to wonderif the past has too powerful a hold on him in this witty and charming follow-up to the much-loved The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals.

Marketing and Publicity• National print review coverage• Regional interest: Wales, the United Kingdom• Reading group guide available

Comparative titles: The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals byWendy Jones; The History of Love by Nicole Krauss; The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomon

On sale: May 19 • Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 97816094526745¼ x 8¼ • 272 pages • $16.00 • US • ebook isbn: 9781609452773

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Praise for The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals

“A story exploring first love, loyalty and loss—this diverting novel is purepleasure.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A skillfully drawn comedy of manners.”—The New Yorker

“This playfully poignant debut blossoms out of an irresistible premise. Withwit, compassion and spot-on prose, Jones constructs an engrossing perioddrama. She expertly conjures the speech patterns, mores and physical detailsof a bygone world in this remarkable debut.”—The San Francisco Chronicle

“From the vagaries of desire, through parental love and its absence, to small-town morality, the British author has put together a thematically rich book in a perfectly rendered time and place.”—Kirkus, starred review

“Jones skillfully demonstrates that life is made up of varying measures of bothjoy and pain. Her characters are delightfully drawn, lovingly described, andinfused with life that transcends the printed page.”—World Literature Today

“A life-embracing novel.”—The Boston Globe

Wendy Jones is the author of the biography GraysonPerry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl and the novelThe Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyorof Superior Funerals. She completed an MA in LifeWriting at the University of East Anglia and is currentlycompleting a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths,where she also teaches. She lives in London.

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The Hollow HeartViola Di GradoTranslated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar

In this courageous, inventive,irreverent, and shrewd novel,Viola Di Grado tells the story of a suicide and what follows. She gives voice to an astonishingvision of life after life, portrayingthe awful longing and sense of loss that plague the dead,together with the solitudeprovoked by the impossibility of communicating. The afterlifeitself is seen as a dark, seethingplace where one is preyed uponby the cruel and unrelentingelements. The Hollow Heart willfrighten as it provokes, enlightenas it causes concern. If ever therewere a novel that follows Kafka’s

prescription for a book to be an axe for the frozen sea within us, it is TheHollow Heart.

In this, Di Grado’s second novel after 70% Acrylic 30% Wool, the twenty-seven-year-old prodigy gives proof of her reputation as a singular and explosivetalent.

Marketing and Publicity• National print review coverage• Reading group guide available

Comparative titles: Life after Life by Kate Atkinson; The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold; Samedi,the Deafness by Jesse Ball; 70% Acrylic 30% Wool by Viola Di Grado.

On sale: June 23 • Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 97816094527115¼ x 8¼ • 176 pages • $16.00/£9.99 • World English • ebook isbn: 9781609452810

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Praise for 70% Acrylic 30% Wool

“A fearless first novel . . . Shimmering prose.”—The New York Times T Magazine

“Sophisticated . . . a subtle meditation on language and its failures.”—The Financial Times

“[Di Grado’s] black comedy, pungent metaphors and controlled ambiguityannounce the arrival of a considerable talent.”—The Times Literary Supplement

“Written in lavish language and with beautiful metaphors.”—The Star Tribune

“What a novel! Viola di Grado is undoubtedly a true creator . . . This firstnovel shows immense promise.”—The Quarterly Conversation

Viola Di Grado was born in Catania, Italy, and currentlylives in London. Her first novel, 70% Acrylic 30% Wool,was the winner of the 2011 Campiello First NovelAward and a finalist for Italy’s most prestigious literaryprize, The Strega.

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The Vienna MelodyErnst LotharTranslated from the German by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood

Everyone in Vienna knows that the inhabitant of number 10Seilerstätte is none other thanChristopher Alt, piano maker, thebest in the city, probably in all ofAustria, and possibly the worldover. His piano keys have given life to melodies by Mozart, Haydn,Beethoven, and many more. On his deathbed, moved by thewish to keep his children united,he leaves a will specifying that hisdescendants, if they are to get theirinheritance, must live together in the family home.

Over successive generations of the Alt family, history itself passes through the doors, down the halls, and intothe private rooms of the Alt’s building. There is intrigue at the court of Franz-Josef: an heir to the throne has fallen in love with Henrietta Alt, who will have to carry the guilt for his eventual suicide. There are betrayals, belovedillegitimate children, and despised legitimate offspring. There are seethingpassions and icy relations, a world war and the rise of Nazism to contend with.There are duels, ambitions, hopes, affairs of the heart and affairs of state.Three generations of Alts live and die at number 10 Seilerstätte and each, in his or her own way, is a privileged witness to the winds of change and a Europe at the height of both its splendor and decadence.

Marketing and Publicity• National print review coverage• A lost classic returns to print• Regional interest: Vienna, Austria, Central Europe• Reading group guide available

Comparative titles: The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa; War and Peace by LeoTolstoy; The Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

On sale: July 7 • Historical Fiction/Literary Classic • Paperback • isbn: 97816094527285¼ x 8¼ • 608 pages • $18.00/£11.99 • World English • ebook isbn: 9781609452827

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Praise for Ernst Lothar

“A grand novel that offers its readers a profound understanding of Vienna and Austria, rendering them eternal.”—The Los Angeles Times

“A long, passionate, literary embrace with a setting that provides a magnificentbackdrop for intense characters and their tangles of ruinous emotions . . . Thisis a Buddenbrooks on the Danube.”—La Repubblica (Italy)

“The epic ambitions of this writer fills the story with abiding curiosity thatleaves traces everywhere: swift and unforgettable sketches of characters,salons, boudoirs, and fascinating gossip.”—La Stampa (Italy)

Ernst Lothar was born in Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno in the CzechRepublic) in 1890 and died in Vienna in 1974. He was a writer, theatredirector, and producer. In addition to The Vienna Melody, first published in the US in 1944 as The Angel with the Trumpet, his best-known works are The Prisoner and Beneath Another Sun. He was married to the Austrianactress Adrienne Gessner.

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The Red CollarJean-Christophe RufinTranslated from the French by Adriana Hunter

In 1919, in a small town in theprovince of Berry, France, underthe sweltering temperatures ofsummer heat wave, a war hero isbeing held prisoner in an abandonedbarrack. In front of the door to hisprison, a mangy dog barks nightand day. Miles from where he isbeing held, in the Frenchcountryside, an extraordinarilyintelligent young woman works theland, waiting and hoping. A judgewhose principles have been sorelyshaken by the war is travelling to an unknown location to sort outcertain affairs of which it is betternot to speak.

Three characters. In their midst, a dog holds the key both to their destinies and to this intriguing plot.

Full of poetry and life, The Red Collar is at once a pleasingly straightforwardnarrative about the human spirit and a profound work about loyalty and love.

Marketing and Publicity• National print review coverage• Regional interest: France, Europe, WWI• Reading group guide available

Comparative titles: The Most Beautiful Book in the World by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

On sale: July 21 • Fiction • Paperback • isbn: 97816094527355¼ x 8¼ • 160 pages • $15.00/£8.99 • World English • ebook isbn: 9781609452834

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Praise for Jean-Christophe Rufin

“What does it mean to fight for what one loves? To act out of loyalty? Or outof solidarity? In The Red Collar, a delicate and poetic novel, Rufin examinesthat which makes us human.”—L’express (France)

“Without special effects, with simplicity and the pure pleasure of telling a story, Jean-Christophe Rufin explores the meaning of faithfulness, loyalty,and honor.”—Le Figaro (France)

“The Dream Maker brings to vivid life the exemplary career of a little knownmedieval paragon: Jacques Cœur, banker, visionary and crafter of the glorythat was France.”—The Barnes & Noble Review

Jean-Christophe Rufin is one of the founders of DoctorsWithout Borders and a former Ambassador of France inSenegal. He has written numerous bestsellers, includingThe Abyssinian, for which he won the Goncourt Prizefor a debut novel in 1997. He also won the GoncourtPrize in 2001 for Brazil Red. He is the author of TheDream Maker (Europa Editions, 2013).

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“This story, like all great tales, will break your heart,but it will also make you realize—or remember—that sometimes

the pain is worth it.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“A beautiful story with a large cast of fascinating, complicated characters whose behavior is delightfully unpredictable.”—The Wall Street Journal

“An ingenious work of fiction.”—The Boston Globe

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BLACKBIRDTom Wright

Tom Wright has another winningJim Bonham Case on his handswith the follow-up to What Diesin Summer. Comprised ofcinematic prose and unforgettablecharacters living in a small townwith a shadowy underbelly,Blackbird is a thrilling crime novelthat will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page is turned.

In a small town in the Ark-LA-Tex region, Detective JimBeaudry Bonham has beenassigned a new case: a woman has been brutally attacked and nailed to a cross on theoutskirts of town the day after

a devastating storm hits. Bonham recognizes her immediately as Dr. DeborahGold, one of the town’s most well-known psychologists. Knowing how manysecrets Dr. Gold took to her grave, Bonham’s list of suspects grows by theminute—as well as the questions that help explain just how and why such a gruesome murder was committed.

With the help of complex, fully realized characters (the town itself being one of them), Blackbird is not only an intelligent crime novel, but also an in-depthexploration of small-town life and how it is affected by extreme violence andsavagery. Wright’s comprehensive description of the setting and charactersbeautifully juxtaposes the unknowns surrounding the murder, makingBlackbird a refreshing and welcome addition to the crime canon.

Comparative titles: What Dies in Summer by Tom Wright; The Rage by Gene Kerrigan; Kindred inDeath by J.D. Robb; The Law of Nines by Terry Goodkind

On sale: June 16 • Fiction/Crime • Paperback • isbn: 97816094527045¼ x 8¼ • 288 pages • $17.00 • US • ebook isbn: 9781609452803

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“A crime novel that does so much more than most others in the genre.Blackbird is dark, haunting and beautifully written.”—MARK BILLINGHAM, author of the Tom Thorne series

“Wright’s gift is superb characterization. [What Dies in Summer is] a lyricaland realistic study of innocence lost.”—Kirkus Reviews

“What Dies in Summer is an accomplished first novel; menacing, punchy, tense and as close and sticky as a long summer in the Deep South.”—The Scotsman

A Texas native, Tom Wright is a licensed and practicingpsychologist in Texarkana, Texas. What Dies in Summer,his debut novel, was a New York Times Editor’s Pick and a finalist for the Crime Writer’s Association DaggerAwards in 2012.

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THE GANG OF LOVERSMassimo CarlottoTranslated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar

Padua, Italy. An unremarkableman, a husband and father,disappears without a trace. Aftera few months of searching, thepolice send his file to the coldcases department. One womanknows the truth about hisdisappearance, but, being thedaughter of a prominent andwealthy Swiss industrialist, shefears coming forward with whatshe knows: that she was his loverand that there is more to hisdisappearance than anotherbored suburban husband runningout on his family. Stricken by

guilt, she finally confides in a lawyer who advises her to turn to Marco Buratti,a.k.a The Alligator, for help.

Buratti agrees to assist the woman and quickly hits on the trail of theunscrupulous and brilliant criminal, Giorgio Pellegrini, protagonist of The Goodbye Kiss and At the End of a Dull Day.

The deadly game of cat and mouse in which the good guys and the bad guysare often hard to tell apart is Carlotto’s specialty. But good or bad, these menare survivors in a world where the once ironclad criminal codes of conduct are disappearing and new criminal syndicates do vicious battle with old.

Massimo Carlotto was born in Padua, Italy. In additionto the many titles in his extremely popular Alligatorseries, he is also the author of The Fugitive, Death’sDark Abyss, Poisonville, Bandit Love, and At the End of a Dull Day. One of Italy’s most popular authors and a major exponent of the Mediterranean Noir novel,Carlotto has been compared with many of the mostimportant American hardboiled crime writers.

Regional interest: Italy, Padua

On sale: June 2 • Fiction/Crime • Paperback • isbn: 97816094528615¼ x 8¼ • 208 pages • $15.00/£8.99 • World English • ebook isbn: 9781609452797

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THE NIGHT OF THE PANTHERSPiergiorgio PulixiTranslated from the Italian by Howard Curtis

Inspector Biagio Mazzeo is thehead of a special unit composedof cops who have been trained inthe investigation of organizedcrime. He is a kind of fatherfigure to these hard men and heoften leads them well beyond theconfines of what is legal. But nowthey’ve been found out. In orderto save his men from beingsmeared in a corruption scandal,Mazzeo sacrifices himself and istried and sentenced to jail time.

His sacrifice, however, isn’t enough. His unit has stolen a shipment of drugsand its owners want it back. This time, Mazzeo’s boys have messed aroundwith the wrong drug cartel, for these are no ordinary criminals, this is the’Ndrangheta, the infamous Calabrian mafia that will stop at nothing to getwhat’s theirs. From behind bars Mazzeo has only one way of helping his men:making a deal with a young female police officer who promises he will bereleased and all charges dropped if Mazzeo embarks on a suicide mission to put an end to a vicious gangland war.

In a gripping crescendo of violence, vendettas and corruption, Biagio Mazzeois faced with one life or death decision after another. The Night of the Panthersis an action filled police drama that will have readers’ pulses racing.

Regional interest: Italy

Comparative titles: the film Department 36 by Olivier Marchal; The Tin Collectors by Stephen J.Cannell; Enemy Within by Robert K. Tanenbaum

On sale: August 18 • Fiction/Crime • Paperback • isbn: 97816094527595¼ x 8¼ • 288 pages • $17.00/£10.99 • World English • ebook isbn: 9781609452858

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Praise for The Night of the Panthers

“The Night of the Panthers is not only a great novel in terms of style and plot,but, in perfect noir fashion, it is useful for understanding organized crime in Italy . . . Pulixi’s literary promise has become a magnificent reality.”—Tempi Nuovi (Italy)

“Pulixi has an amazing talent for plot development and an ability to throwreaders off the scent by working in breathtaking twists.”—Thriller Magazine

Piergiorgio Pulixi was born in Cagliari, Sardinia, in 1982. He is a member of Sabot, an experiment in collective crime fiction writing created by MassimoCarlotto, Italy’s preeminent author of crime fiction. He lives in London.

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