Valerio Varesi
Autor de Le fleuve des brumes
Sobre El Autor
Series
Obras de Valerio Varesi
River of Shadows 2 copias
Il labirinto di ghiaccio 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Varesi, Valerio
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1959-08-08
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Italy (birth)
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Turin, Italy
- Ocupaciones
- journalist
writer
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 34
- Miembros
- 400
- Popularidad
- #60,685
- Valoración
- 3.2
- Reseñas
- 18
- ISBNs
- 89
- Idiomas
- 5
Commissario Soneri pushes to have these two seemingly unrelated cases investigated, against his superiors' wishes. He heads to the Po, giving priority to the bargeman’s baffling disappearance, crossing swords with taciturn locals determined to give him little to go on.
The plot of this novel is not that remarkable, developing gradually rather than with any breathtaking twists. Varesi’s real achievement is how he has placed the Po River at the centre of the story, providing an atmospheric and unusual setting for a murder mystery. His description of life on the river and its vicissitudes is compelling.
Soneri is not a bad character as the basis for a series. My one demurral is that every good Euro detective needs a source of angst, and Soneri's mostly seems to be that his girlfriend is a nymphomaniac who likes to have sex in semi-public situations. I find that less believable and less compelling than the dark forces haunting characters such as Wallender and Erlendur.… (más)