Black Run: A Rocco Schiavone Mystery - Tapa blanda

Written in a style both colorful and ironic, author Manzini proves himself a great storyteller. --Suspense Magazine"

What keeps the reader glued to the story is Rocco. He s fascinating in his contradictions Fans of Andrea Camilleri s Sicily-set Inspector Montalbano series will enjoy this debut mystery for its sly humor, vividly drawn characters, and amusing cultural clashes between rugged mountaineers and the more urbane southerner. --Library Journal (starred review)"

Arresting murder mystery. --Monocle magazine"

Don t miss Black Run for the excitement, suspense, and yes, horror of a fine mystery. And meet Rocco who is a man who makes and breaks his own rules. --Bookloons.com"

Manzini s detective story is a pretext for talking brilliantly about Italian society. --Andrea Camilleri"

At last a detective who s not haunted by personal demons or soaked in booze He s a coarse, violent and engaging policeman who would not be out of place in a James Ellroy masterpiece. The tale is deftly told with sharp, cynical dialogue. Let s hear more of Schiavone. --Daily Mail (London)"

Antonio Manzini has created an Italian detective to rival Andrea Camilleri s Inspector Montalbano with deputy chief Rocco Schiavone. --GQ"

Rocco Schivone is as bad a cop as Lt. Kojak. Dishonest, potentially violent, intolerant of the rules, but he also has a talent for the job he does an unusual character Noir with a touch of dark irony. --Repubblica"

The ranks of impressive Euro Noir novelists is swelled by the gritty Antonio Manzini, whose Black Run may sport epigraphs from Schilller and Mayakovsky, but underlines its genre-credentials with a superstructure of diamond-hard crime writing..this is lacerating stuff. --Financial Times "

Forget Montalbano. Commisario Rocco Schivone is grievous, coarse, violent Wonderful, heartbreaking. -- L'Uomo Vogue"