{"product_id":"young-beasts-at-play","title":"Young Beasts at Play","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A superior police procedural\" Mark Sanderson, \u003ci\u003eThe Times Crime Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Northern Italy's answer to Inspector Montalbano\" Alessandro Baricco\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeptember 2008. Commissario Arcadipane arrives at the scene of a macabre discovery: the bones of twelve men and women buried in the countryside near Torino.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy the next morning, a task force specialising in mass graves from WWII is already in place. But something doesn't feel right: one of the femurs shows signs of an operation that couldn't have taken place before the seventies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuspecting a cover-up, Arcadipane launches his own investigation, enlisting his old mentor, Corso Bramard, long retired, and Isa, a young officer still haunted by the unexplained death of her father.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese mismatched allies ­- one at last at peace, one jaded to the point of breakdown and one under a permanent disciplinary cloud ­- will unveil a cruel political conspiracy that someone wants covered up for the second time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Italian by Silvester Mazzarella\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39697566990419,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781529408218.jpg?v=1778644865","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/young-beasts-at-play","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}