The Fatal Touch (Commissario Alec Blume)
by Conor FitzgeraldMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Not as good as Fitzgerald's first outing, but still enjoyable.
I had some difficulty with credibility, but the reader has to remember we're talking about Italy. Or at least the Italy of crime fiction. The corrupt Carabiniere seems over-the-top, and certainly would be if set in North America, but is probably not worse than I have seen in other crime fiction set in Italy. I don't know enough, personally, about Italy to know how corrupt the police are, but one suspects that the novels might not be telling the whole story.
On the positive side, the police work is solid, and clues don't have to appear by wild coincidence to advance the plot.
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