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Suspicion : A Novel by Laura Grimaldi; Robin Pickering-Iazzi; ProQuest (Firm) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Suspicion : A Novel about?

In the shadow of the "Monster of Florence," a serial murderer who has terrorized Italy for seventeen years, Laura Grimaldi sets her tense psychological thriller Suspicion--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. 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. Matilde's efforts to decipher Enea's secretive moveme

Who reads Suspicion : A Novel?

Author

Laura Grimaldi; Robin Pickering-Iazzi; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press, Terrace Books; Terrace Books

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282424258

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Thriller, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14