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Commissario Soneri returns home for a hard-earned autumn holiday, hoping to spend a few days mushroom picking on the slopes of Montelupo. This isolated village relies on the salame factory founded in the post-war years by Palmiro Rodolfi, and now run by his son, Paride.

On arrival, Soneri is greeted by anxious rumours about the factory's solvency and the younger Rodolfi's whereabouts. Not long afterwards, a decomposing body is found in the woods. In the shadow of Montelupo, carabinieri prepare to apprehend their chief suspect - an ageing woodsman who defended the same mountains from S.S. commandos during the war.



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The Dark Valley: A Commissario Soneri

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    A Paperback / softback by Valerio Varesi, Joseph Farrell

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      Publisher Quercus Publishing
      Published 31 January 2013
      ISBN-13 9781906694357
      978-1906694357
      ISBN-10 1906694354

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Commissario Soneri returns home for a hard-earned autumn holiday, hoping to spend a few days mushroom picking on the slopes of Montelupo. This isolated village relies on the salame factory founded in the post-war years by Palmiro Rodolfi, and now run by his son, Paride.

      On arrival, Soneri is greeted by anxious rumours about the factory's solvency and the younger Rodolfi's whereabouts. Not long afterwards, a decomposing body is found in the woods. In the shadow of Montelupo, carabinieri prepare to apprehend their chief suspect - an ageing woodsman who defended the same mountains from S.S. commandos during the war.



      Trade Review
      'A master storyteller' Barry Forshaw, Independent. * Independent *
      'A rich, rewarding read' Laura Wilson. * Laura Wilson *
      'A broodingly atmospheric and engaging crime thriller' Mail on Sunday. * Mail on Sunday *
      'Varesi exposes a dark history that still has the power to unsettle' Joan Smith, Sunday Times. * Sunday Times *

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