Kill the King
Sandrone Dazieri
"Colomba followed Lupo, entering the center of Montenigro for the first time since she’d been a child."
"Colomba followed Lupo, entering the center of Montenigro for the first time since she’d been a child."
"On a night of hard frost, in the ruins of a burnt church, I found a body in the snow."
"As the famed song played in the single bud still wedged inside an ear, Tom Santiago found himself baking beneath a sun that had risen hours ago, long before his postal rounds brought him to the town of Camino Pass."
"Ferreira was sitting on the bonnet of his car, rolling a cigarette, when Zigic emerged from number 4, and it took him a few minutes further to extricate himself from Ainsworth’s neighbour and his accomplice of a cat, which kept winding between his feet in a figure of eight."
"Well, death was a darkling dollop of dog wank."
"'Why should I talk to you?' the man scoffed."
"The morning after the clearly-not-business dinner, I knew I had to take some kind of action, but I was having trouble coming up with a next step that didn’t make me seem like a jealous shrew."
"Something else is in the water."
"At Ki-jeong’s mother’s house, the door to her sister’s room was always closed."
"Roy’s grandfather subscribed to several magazines, among them Time, Field & Stream, Sport, and Reader’s Digest, but the one that interested Roy most was San Francisco Bay Crime Monthly."



