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Book Details

GENRE: Crime/Thriller

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BLURB:

Mitchell Rose and the Bologna Massacre is a crime story that explores the last fifty years of
cross-fertilisation between the Italian criminal underworld, its secret services, politics and the
judicial system.
When Mitchell Rose is called to Milan by Remo Rhimare, a local judge who wants him to
investigate the Bologna bombing of 1980, he knows it would make more sense to turn the job
down.
To make things even more complicated, Rhimare also wants Rose to rein in his errant daughter,
who is becoming increasingly wayward.
As Rose begins to investigate, the two missions surprisingly become one, culminating in a
dreadful dramatic climax.

Excerpt One:

I was just turning to leave the study when Remo caught me by the arm, causing me to turn and
face him.
“There was one other thing.”
“What’s that, Remo?”
“My daughter.”

“Benedetta?” I queried. “Don’t worry about her, she looks like she’s grown up just fine and if
she’s lonely any time, I can always give her a call.”
“Not Benedetta.” He shot me a look that was meant to discourage my interest, but only stoked
the fires. “Clara.”
“Clara?”
“Yes, my other daughter. She’s not at all like Benedetta. In fact, I’m afraid she may be passing
over to the wild side.”
“What seems to be the problem?”
“Well, she isn’t working and she isn’t studying, but she always seems to have money to hand
and she spends it like it’s going out of fashion. I’d just like to know where it’s coming from and
where it’s all going.”
“So, you’re asking me to sit in on a local terrorist and do some babysitting, see where your little
girl spends her days?”
“And her nights; sometimes she doesn’t even come home.”
“I’ll see what I can do. What’s the priority call on these two things?”
“Equal priority, Mitchell. Here’s a copy of her I.D. She normally leaves the house early in the
morning before we get up and doesn’t come back till late.”
I continued toward the door and when I opened it, I found Benedetta waiting outside. She
accompanied me to the main gate, her head bowed low to the ground. I noticed that the two
workers I had seen before were now busy rigging up a state-of-the-art alarm system. I nodded a
goodbye in their direction and motioned to leave. They ignored me, preferring to meddle with
the wires, the filaments that triggered power.

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Mark A. Hill has an Economics degree from the University of Lancaster and both CELTA and
DELTA qualifications to teach English to second language learners.
In 2005, in Cagliari, Italy, he founded English Teachers, which offers language services such as
English courses, translations and interpreting. He collaborates as a translator and interpreter
with the Cagliari Law Courts, several universities throughout Europe, and numerous private and
public organizations both in the Cagliari area and throughout Italy.
Every summer, he teaches English for Academic Purposes (EAP) to Postgraduate students at
Swansea University in the UK.
Mark A. Hill’s poetry has been published in The UK Poetry Library’s Top Writers of 2012 and the
Live Canon 2013 Prize Anthology. He was highly commended in the 2015 Segora Poetry Prize
and was short-listed for the Canon 2015 First Collection Prize. In 2016, one of his poems was
commissioned, published and performed at The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, for the
anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
Mark A. Hill has also published academic courseware in collaboration with Delfis s.r.l.

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Guest Post Topic: Things that inspire you and why.

That’s a really hard question to answer. I’d like to answer it a few different ways.
I am inspired by people who stand up for their beliefs, notwithstanding more powerful elements being their opposition. I am inspired by people who overcome difficulty and live their lives in a positive cooperative way. I am inspired by thunderstorms, poetry and vineyards.
I could say I am inspired by my parents, my family, my friends; the people I choose to spend time with, but I guess I’d prefer to tell you which writers inspire me. Still, I’m not sure if that will give you much of a clue as to
how this book is written or what the book feels like when you have it in hand.
Shakespeare, Austen, Dostoyevsky, Mailer, Sartre, Salinger, Ginsberg are all writers that have inspired me.
They all wrote like angels and one could only ever hope to emulate, people I imagine I probably won’t get close to. I guess the nearest thing to an inspiration, for this novel, would be Raymond Chandler or Georges Simeon?
In fact, when I was writing the novel, I started reading through these old pamphlet-like novelettes that my father-in-law had accumulated from the 1950s and 1960s and I read them in Italian and tried to use then as a style guide. Whenever I sensed that my writing was becoming too high-flown, I would stop myself, go back to these pamphlets and try to tone down the style. Out with the adjectives, trim down the adverbs, absolutely no use of a Thesaurus, Mark. Note to self. Just try to tell the reader what is happening.
I went back to Chandler recently as I was a little worried as to whether I had actually copied his style too directly.
I think there is definitely something of his in this novel, but perhaps I’m aping more the era than the writer. If you think back to all those 50s and 60s detective films that we were brought up with in the 70s and 80s, the private investigator is stylized, cryptic, pushing a door open with a gun in his hand, nudging forward. To some extent, it’s a childhood image that stayed with me and got reproduced here. As I said, I picked through the Chandler novels, afraid that I was going to discover that I had lifted whole sections, but luckily that wasn’t the case. I dug out a couple of phrases that I had used in real life and recycled as my own literature, but thankfully that was the sum total of my plagiarism.

Giveaway

Mark A. Hill will be awarding a $15 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner.

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