The Namesake (Commissario Alec Blume 3) by Conor Fitzgerald from Bloomsbury Publishing (£1.29) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "Very enjoyable...a fascinating insight into the way the very successful Calabrian mafia operates."
The disappearance of Matteo Arconti, an innocent insurance man from Milan, is no mistake. That much becomes clear when his body is discovered mere feet away from the office of another Matteo Arconti--a court magistrate known for his close scrutiny of mafia movements.
This namesake killing broadcasts a clear message of defiance and intimidation from a powerful crime syndicate. But whom, exactly, is the murder intended to intimidate?
Commissario Alec Blume thinks he knows who’s behind it all--Italy’s most efficient and secretive mafia, the Ndrangheta, whose principals have operated untouchably from Germany for years. This is Blume’s chance to lure the arrogant mafiosi out of their hiding place.
As a personal friend of Judge Arconti, however, Blume is too close to the case to formally investigate. Handing control over to his partner, Caterina Mattiola, he willingly takes a backseat--that is, until he decides to speed things up and secretly falsifies a mob wife’s confession.
This plan forces Blume into an electrifying chase across Italy, from Naples to Calabria. As he races to right his wrongs and save innocent lives, Commissario Blume must ask himself whether he has finally gone too far...
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A Spy in the Family: An Erotic Comedy by Alec Waugh from Bloomsbury Reader (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Victor and Myra's respectable marriage is changed forever when Myra decides to embark on some unexpected adventures.
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Third Man in Havana: Finding the heart of cricket in the world's most unlikely places by Tom Rodwell from Icon Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "It is both funny and wise and a delightful reminder of how sport can bring contrasting cultures together."
An uplifting tale of cricket – but not as you know it – making a difference in far-flung parts of the world. For six years Tom Rodwell ran cricketing programmes from Cuba to Zimbabwe, attempting to soothe the world’s ills with the curiously English balm known as cricket. Touching, amusing and imbued with a deep love of the game, Third Man in Havana documents the characters and experiences Rodwell encountered, such as Guantanamo Cricket Club opening bowler, Stalin, who perhaps unsurprisingly didn’t take kindly to his LBW appeal being rejected in Cuba’s first ever match against an England X1. From Beersheva Cricket Club pavilion in Israel – a converted nuclear bomb shelter, useful in the face of Hamas’ regular rocket attacks – to a game of ‘tapeball’ cricket with ex-Tamil Tiger child soldiers behind barbed wire in Sri Lanka, Rodwell discovers that the heart of the game is beating fast in countries more used to conflict than cricket.
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