Temporary Perfections (Guido Guerrieri, 4)
by Gianrico Carofiglio; Antony Shugaar (trans)
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0847836304
- ISBN 13
- 9780847836307
- Seller
-
Arlington, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2011. Hardcover. First English-language Edition / full number line. As New book in an As New jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 368 pages.
A lawyer practicing in Bari, in southwest Italy, is hired by an old colleague to work a missing-persons case that the police have failed to solve. Manuela Ferraro disappeared six months ago after spending a September weekend at a beach resort; as Guerrieri digs deep into her life and activities, he stumbles into a sinister drug ring and the real truth about why Ferraro vanished.
A lawyer practicing in Bari, in southwest Italy, is hired by an old colleague to work a missing-persons case that the police have failed to solve. Manuela Ferraro disappeared six months ago after spending a September weekend at a beach resort; as Guerrieri digs deep into her life and activities, he stumbles into a sinister drug ring and the real truth about why Ferraro vanished.
Synopsis
Award-winning, best-selling Italian crime novelist Gianrico Carofiglio is the author of three previous novels featuring the character of defense lawyer Guido Guerrieri: Involuntary Witness , A Walk in the Dark , and Reasonable Doubts . A former prosecutor in Bari, Puglia, Carofiglio is an expert in the investigation of organized crime and related psychology. His other novels include The Past is a Foreign Country . Carofiglio’s books have been translated into seventeen languages worldwide.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Books of the World (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000002808
- Title
- Temporary Perfections (Guido Guerrieri, 4)
- Author
- Gianrico Carofiglio; Antony Shugaar (trans)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First English Language Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0847836304
- ISBN 13
- 9780847836307
- Publisher
- Rizzoli Ex Libris
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- fiction, crime, mystery, Italy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Mystery, Suspense, Detective, Crime; Europe; Britain;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
Books of the World
30 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Books of the World
Biblio member since 2017
Arlington, Virginia
About Books of the World
Finding new homes for the library I collected over five decades of travel around the world.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...