In the street, I realized the wind had swept away almost all the clouds of the past few days. I felt like smiling.

It was turning into a bright spring morning.

About the Author

Award-winning, best-selling novelist Gianrico Carofiglio was born in Bari in 1961 and worked for many years as a prosecutor specializing in organized crime. He was appointed advisor of the anti-Mafia committee in the Italian parliament in 2007 and served as a senator from 2008 to 2013. Carofiglio is best known for the Guido Guerrieri crime series: Involuntary Witness, A Walk in the Dark, Reasonable Doubts, Temporary Perfections, A Fine Line and The Measure of Time, all six published by Bitter Lemon Press. His other novels include The Silence of the Wave and The Cold Summer. Carofiglio’s books have sold more than six million copies and have been translated all over the world.

ALSO AVAILABLE FROM
BITTER LEMON PRESS
BY GIANRICO CAROFIGLIO:

the guido guerrieri series

Involuntary Witness

A Walk in the Dark

Reasonable Doubts

Temporary Perfections

A Fine Line

other

The Silence of the Wave

The Cold Summer

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Copyright

BITTER LEMON PRESS

First published in the United Kingdom in 2021 by
Bitter Lemon Press, 47 Wilmington Square, London WC1X 0ET

First published in Italian as La misura del tempo by Giulio Einaudi editore, 2019
© Gianrico Carofiglio, 2019

English translation © Howard Curtis, 2021

This edition published by arrangement with
Rosaria Carpinelli Consulenze Editoriali srl.

The moral rights of the author and the translator have been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988

A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978–1–913394–48–6
eBook USC ISBN: 978–1–913394–49–3
eBook ROW ISBN: 978–1–913394–50–9

Typeset by Tetragon, London
Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY