{"product_id":"suspicion-9","title":"Suspicion","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the shadow of the \"Monster of Florence,\" a serial murderer who has  terrorized Italy for seventeen years, Laura Grimaldi sets her tense  psychological thriller \u003ci\u003eSuspicion\u003c\/i\u003e—a noir mystery of a city  transformed by fear, and of friendships and family ties twisted by  uncertainty and dark speculation. Grimaldi, whose hardboiled mysteries  of the 1950s earned her the title \"Italy’s queen of crime,\" turns here  to the deeper, more elusive and disturbing questions that haunt human  affairs.\u003cbr\u003e    For years Matilde, the widow of a prominent Florentine doctor, has  lived alone with her eccentric middle-aged son, Enea. When the police  pay a call, the balance between mother and son is shifted just subtly  enough to make Matilde prey to suspicions and doubts that grow ever more  corrosive, ever harder to conceal and more dangerous to reveal. In the  literary tradition of such mystery writers as Patricia Highsmith and  Ruth Rendell, Grimaldi creates an atmosphere charged with suspense as  the daily lives and routines of her characters, infected with suspicion,  begin to rearrange themselves around a few frightening facts and  infinite monstrous possibilities.\u003cbr\u003e    Matilde’s efforts to decipher Enea’s secretive movements and  occupations appear perfectly sensible and defensible through Grimaldi’s  deft shifts between mother and son—and another, chillingly detached  perspective on the gruesome murders. Grimaldi’s readers will find  themselves as subject to misinterpretation and doubt, to sympathies and  suspicions as her Florentine characters, and spellbound until the book’s  final page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55555000795480,"sku":"9780299188603","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780299188603.jpg?v=1778676367","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/suspicion-9","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}