Here is an image of the US cover of the fourth book that Bloomsbury sent me the other day. I hope they stick with it. The building there is the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, also known as the “Square Colosseum”. It is in the EUR area of Rome, developed in 1942 for a Universal Exposition that never took place because of the war. It is a fine example of Fascist architecture. A large, white empty gesture. I can tell you that Blume doesn’t like it much, but he’s never to be trusted on matters of taste. His tastes in music, for instance, are execrable.
It might not be a beautiful building, but the cover is quite ominous. Appropriate, I surmise. I’m very much looking forward to Blume’s next case.
The cover is Moody. I like that building, actually. It appears in too many car adverts, and below the street is lined with prostitutes, but it’s still pretty cool.
Aha! I thought I’d just check the internet to see if your fourth novel has been published yet – and I find not only that it has, but that you now have a blog. Excellent. Love your books, they are really top class.
Thank you. Now all I have to do is become patient enough to update the blog. It’s not so much the”log” bit, it’s the webby bit and all those buttons and things that keep me away.
When might we see information for the US release on iBookstore or Amazon (particularly the Kindle)?