REASONABLE DOUBTS
Gianrico Carofiglio
Counsel for the defence Guido Guerrieri is asked
to handle the appeal of Fabio Paolicelli, who has been sentenced to
sixteen years for drug smuggling. The odds are stacked against the
accused: not only the fact that he initially confessed to the
crime, but also his past as a neo-Fascist thug. It is only the
intervention of Paolicelli’s beautiful half-Japanese wife that
finally overcomes Guerrieri’s reluctance.
Reasonable Doubts, Carofiglio’s third
novel featuring Guerrieri, follows on from the critical and
commercial success of Involuntary Witness and A Walk in
the Dark.
PRAISE FOR REASONABLE
DOUBTS
“The role of lawyer Guido Guerrieri is to
take on impossible cases that have little chance of success. The
lawyer accepts this case only because he’s fallen in lust with the
prisoner’s wife; his efforts to prove his client’s innocence bring
him into dangerous conflict with Mafia interests. Everything a
legal thriller should be.”
The Times
This novel is hard-boiled and sun-dried in
equal parts. Guerrieri stumbles into a case involving old enmities,
a femme fatale and a murky conspiracy. But where Philip Marlowe
would be knocking back bourbon and listening to the snap of fist on
jaw, Guerrieri prefers Sicilian wine and Leonard Cohen… The local
colour is complemented by snappy legal procedural writing which
sends the reader tumbling through the clockwork of a tightly wound
plot.”
The Financial Times
“Carofiglio, until recently an anti-Mafia
prosecutor in southern Italy, is particularly well placed to write
legal thrillers, and he does so with considerable brio, humour and
skill.”
The Daily Mail