Reviews on Involuntary Witness (2)

An unputtable down page turner. Best devoured in one sitting

Involuntary Witness

If I ever trangress badly enough to end up in court then I would demand that I am defended by Guido Guerrieri, the wine drinking Leonard Cohen liking slightly whacky lawyer in this book. He is not Sherlock Holmes or Philip Marlow. He is more Inspector Morse or Rebus but more human. Having sung the hero’s praises I am not sure I would ever want to be defended in an Italian court of law, the procedures of which are very confusing. Cracking read; exciting, moving, funny and very, very clever.

Another great courtroom mystery.

Involuntary Witness

This is every bit as good as the first Carofiglio I read. The Italian defence lawyer Guido has a client who is an African immigrant charged with murder on what seems unbelievably slim evidence, but with biased police, jury and judges. As Richard said in the review on Temporary Perfections, the lawyer is really well characterised and this time there is a love interest as well. An easy and entertaining read.