Measure of Time

Guerrieri is confronted with Lorenza, a changed woman with a bitter mind and her son Jacopo, convicted of murder. He accepts the case to pay homage to his youth, with Carmelo Tancredi and Annapaola Doria by his side.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 248 pages
\n Publication date: 18 March 2021
\n Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
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Defence attorney Guerrieri is confronted with an unexpected spectre from his past on a spring afternoon. In her youth, Lorenza had been a beautiful and unpredictable girl with dazzling charm. A changed woman faces him in his office that day. The ensuing years have ravaged her appearance and embittered her mind. As if that weren't enough, her son Jacopo, a small-time delinquent, stands convicted of the first-degree murder of a local drug dealer. Her trial lawyer has died, so she turns to Guerrieri as her last hope for the appeal. Guerrieri is not convinced of the innocence of Lorenzas son, nor does he have fond memories of the way their relationship ended two decades earlier. Nevertheless, he accepts the case; perhaps to pay a melancholy homage to the ghosts of his youth. His old friend Carmelo Tancredi, a retired police inspector, and his girlfriend, the charming investigator Annapaola Doria, are once again by his side. A masterful, compassionate novel, striking a balance between a straightforward trial story – some say the purest distillation of human experience – and the sad notes of time as it passes and exhausts itself.

\n Weight: 274g\n
Dimension: 128 x 199 x 25 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781913394486\n \n