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The Namesake

By: Conor Fitzgerald
Narrated by: John Guerrasio
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When magistrate Matteo Arconti’s namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is found dead outside the court buildings in Piazza Clodio, it’s a coded warning to the authorities - a clear message of defiance and intimidation. Commissioner Alec Blume, all too familiar with Rome’s criminal underclass, knows little of the Calabrian mafia currently under investigation by the magistrate. Handing control of the murder inquiry to his partner Caterina Mattiola, Blume goes in search of answers, setting off on a journey into the deep dark south of Italy....

©2013 Conor Fitzgerald (P)2013 Oakhill Publishing

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"I’m putting my money on Alec Blume becoming the most popular detective of the coming decade." (Belfast Telegraph)

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