A small-town kidnapping presents a major problem for Commissario Trotti—and draws us into CWA Award winner Timothy Williams' debut, set against the rich backdrop of a provincial Italian city.Northern Italy, 1978: Commissario Piero Trotti, trusted senior police investigator in an anonymous provincial city off the River Po, has two difficult cases to solve. A dismembered body has been found in the river, and it’s up to Trotti to figure out who the murder victim is. A...

Northern Italy, 1982: Inspector Piero Trotti is enjoying his breakfast at a café when gunmen drive up and shoot the man sitting at the next table. Was Trotti their intended target? He isn’t sure. The case falls under the jurisdiction of the local Carabinieri, but Trotti decides to make his own inquiries.The Puppeteer is the follow-up to CWA award-winner Timothy Williams’s dazzling crime fiction debut, Converging Parallels. This tautly written novel brings us to th...

Northern Italy, 1993: After what seems like several lifetimes as a policeman in the Questura, Commissario Trotti is ready for retirement. Soon, he’ll be able to fulfill his dream of moving to the countryside villa he co-owns with his cousin, where his daily business will be tending to goats and chickens.But despite Trotti’s stubbornly old-fashioned investigative methods and his disregard for social niceties, there are several people trying to talk him out of retirement. Trotti’s bo...

Cameisha Douglass has it all -- a sprawling home in a posh neighborhood, a fancy car, three healthy children, and a husband, Fashad, who is devoted to her. Her biggest worry is catching her daytime soap operas before the kids come home from school and her husband returns from work, "businesses" that everyone knows are mere fronts through which he launders his drug-dealing money. But as the emotional and sexual secrets of her family come to the surface, she can no longer deny that her life ...

How has (COVID-19) Affected you or your family? We will never be the same even as we appear to be coming out of this viscous killer know as (COVID-19) pandemic has affected millions of people since December 2019. Summarizing the development of COVID-19 and assessing the effects of control measures are very critical to China and other countries.Deciding to take the vaccine became a political hot thing. Some of the 900.000 dead American were a casualty of the raging war (COVID-19) unl...

Timothy Williams was selected by The Observer as one of the “10 Best Modern European Crime Writers” for his series featuring Northern Italian police detective Piero Trotti. Now, 20 years after his last investigation, Trotti returns!After decades as a police detective in his Northern Italian hometown on the River Po, Commissario Piero Trotti has retired. But retirement brings him no respite. An old friend calls him to Siena to give him urgent news: a notori...

John Smith, a Clandestine Recovery Specialist for Reflex Engineering, is making the trip home to southeast Alabama for Thanksgiving, for the first time in over a decade. The holidays present the ideal opportunity to introduce his new girlfriend to his family. While in town, his employer asks him to handle a seemingly simple Asset Recovery Mission that has come up. John takes the job, more out of boredom than any sense of duty. As soon as he begins the mission, he discovers that he's not al...

In this sequel to "Favor For a Favor," John Smith finds out first-hand what it means to work for Reflex Engineering.Back at his home in Flagstaff, Arizona, John receives his first assignment. Under the assumed identity of Jerrod Maloney, he has to find out who is manufacturing and selling Krokodil, a dangerous street drug, in a small town in northern Ohio. Sent in alone, with no formal training, he has to rely on his wit and instinct to complete his objective.Meanwhile, his...

After nearly a decade away, John returns to Eastern North Carolina to visit Jason, his best friend from his time in the Marines. A scuffle in a nightclub earns him the attention of Jeff Davis, a small-time crime boss who is trying to legitimize his income streams. To do so, he needs to eliminate four of his associates in the criminal underworld. Using every asset at his disposal, he digs up John's past and finds the proper tool to motivate him. He gives John a choice: take care of his hit ...

April 1990: French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveaud has been living and working in the French Caribbean département of Guadeloupe for more than a decade, but her days are still full of surprises. She is only just starting to investigate the suspicious suicide of a high-profile environmental activist and media personality when she is pulled off the case. Is it because she was getting too close to the truth?But the new case she’s been assigned takes precedence. The naked bo...

The long-awaited return of Timothy Williams, CWA award-winning grand master of crime fiction, whom The Observer named one of the “10 Best Modern European Crime Writers”The sun-drenched Caribbean island of Guadeloupe is technically part of France, subject to French law and loyal to the French Republic. But in 1980, the scars of colonialism are still fresh, and ethnic tensions and political unrest seethe just below the surface of everyday life.French...

One cannot deny that the Church is in dire need of revival. But the emotionally driven invitation that most Churches advertise does not take hold in the heart of each Christian.What does true, Biblical revival look like?Like Elijah, many people in the church today look for God in earthquakes, fire, wind, and the shattering of rocks. They believe themselves to be the only ones not defiled. They are too busy looking at the loud and flashy things in the church to notice they h...