Adam's Rib
By: Antonio Manzini ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar
Contributors: Shugaar, Antony, translator
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Series: Rocco Schiavone, #2
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780062354679
Subjects: Murder; Investigation; Fiction
Work titles: Costola di Adamo
Description: "Six months after being exiled from his beloved Rome, Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone has settled into a routine in the cold, quiet, chronically backward alpine town of Aosta: an espresso at home, breakfast in the piazza, and a morning joint in his office. A little self-medication helps Rocco deal with the morons that almost exclusively comprise the local force. Especially on a day like today. It's his girlfriend's birthday (if you could call her that; in his mind, Rocco's only faithful to his late wife), he has no gift--and he's about to stumble upon a corpse. It begins when a maid reports a burglary in Aosta. But there's no sign of forced entry, and after Rocco picks the lock, he notices something off about the carefully ransacked rooms. That's when he finds the body: a woman, the maid's employer, left hanging after a grisly suicide. Or is it? Rocco's intuition tells him the scene has been staged. In other words, it's murder--a pain in the ass of the highest order."--Syndetics.
Notes: "A Rocco Schiavone mystery."--Cover.

"Originally published as La costola di Adamo in Italy in 2015 by Sellerio Editore, Palermo."-Verso.