Book review: Partisan Heart, by Gordon Kerr
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Gordon Kerr, already the author of several historical non-fiction titles, including on Italy, marks his crime fiction debut with The Partisan Heart. It opens in 1999, with journalist Michael mourning the death of his wife, Rosa, killed in a car accident during a visit by the couple to her brother and his family in a northern Italian town. Returning to the UK, he opens a package addressed to Rosa containing a man’s jacket. But it’s not his. A visit to the Scottish hotel which sent the jacket reveals that Rosa was having an affair with an Italian. So he returns to Italy to search for her lover, while agreeing with his editor to report on the recent kidnapping of a woman while he is there.