“Commissario Trotti is clever and tough . . . His investigation is fascinating to an American reader because it offers insights into the Italian power structure, which is far more interesting than it is stable.”
—Newsday
The Commissario Trotti Series
Setting: Italy
Number of Crimes (Titles in Series): 5
Last Seen (Most recent title): Big Italy
Series description: Commissario Piero Trotti investigates crime in a small, unnamed city on the river Po in Northern Italy during the political unrest in the wake of the mid-20th century “Italian miracle.”
Series includes: Converging Parallels, The Puppeteer, Persona Non Grata, Black August, Big Italy
Timothy Williams has written five crime novels set in Italy featuring Commissario Piero Trotti as well as two novels set in the French Caribbean, Another Sun and The Honest Folk of Guadeloupe. In 2011, The Observer placed him among the ten best modern European crime novelists. He has lived in the French West Indies, where he teaches, since 1980.
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