The Cold Summer

• An intelligent and unexpected crime novel about the mafia in the southern city of Bari, Italy, in the 1990s, by bestselling Italian author Gianrico Carofiglio • Carofiglio’s novels have sold 5 million copies in Italy alone and have been translated into 27 languages • This is a police procedural with plenty of rich historical background and powerful insight into the reality of organised crime, with a hope for its end at the novel’s core • Carofiglio cleverly blends fact and fiction, starting with the real-life murder of two Sicilian judges by the mafia in Palermo during the ‘cold summer’ of 1992, a period when the mafia were trying to establish a stronghold in the southeastern Puglia region • The author was born in Bari, and has previously worked as a prosecutor in Italy. He was appointed advisor of the anti-mafia committee in the Italian Parliament in 2007, and served as a senator in Rome from 2008 to 2013 • Ideal Father’s Day gift for crime aficionados and fans of Jeffery Deaver, Garry Disher and Donna Leon