Alibi

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The year is 1946. A stunned Europe is beginning its slow recovery from the ravages of World War II. Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and forget the horrors he witnessed as a US Army war crimes investigator in Germany. But when Adam falls in love with Claudia, a Jewish woman scarred by her devastating experiences during the war, he is forced to confront a Venice haunted by atrocities it would rather forget.

Beneath the dream-like facade he discovers a city in which everyone was compromised by occupation, not least Gianni Maglione, the suave and enigmatic Venetian who is both his mother's new suitor and the man responsible for much of Claudia's suffering. When the troubled past erupts in violent murder, Adam finds himself at the centre of a torturous web in which the most valuable thing is not a stone-cold alibi, but the truth itself.

Reviews

'Magnificent' Minette Walters *'Kanon writes for grown-ups, not for day-dreamers. That's why he is so good.' Allan Massie, Scotsman *'That rare thing - a thriller to stimulate heart & mind.' Mail *'A phenomenal third novel ... a fantastic read.' S. Express *'Intelligent, compelling & profoundly thought-provoking.' Herald *'Provocative, fully realised fiction that explores, as only fiction can, the reality of history as it is lived by individual men & women.' New York Times

Author Bio

Joseph Kanon was a publisher for many years, but turned poacher by becoming a novelist with his first, bestselling, thriller LOS ALAMOS, which was awarded the Edgar for the best first novel of 1997.