Timothy Williams: 23 books

The Creation by Timothy Williams   In every religion, there is something powerful out there that could help you in the time of trouble, giving you guidance, protection, comfort, and hope. Through studying different religions – from Christianity to Wicca – the author...

Northern Italy, 1982: Inspector Piero Trotti is enjoying his breakfast at a café when gunmen drive up and shoot the man sitting at the next table. Was Trotti their intended target? He isn’t sure. The case falls under the jurisdiction of the local Carabinieri, but Trotti decides to make his own...

Timothy Williams was selected by The Observer as one of the “10 Best Modern European Crime Writers” for his series featuring Northern Italian police detective Piero Trotti. Now, 20 years after his last investigation, Trotti returns! After decades as a police detective in his Northern Italian...

In this sequel to "Favor For a Favor," John Smith finds out first-hand what it means to work for Reflex Engineering. Back at his home in Flagstaff, Arizona, John receives his first assignment. Under the assumed identity of Jerrod Maloney, he has to find out who is manufacturing and...

After nearly a decade away, John returns to Eastern North Carolina to visit Jason, his best friend from his time in the Marines. A scuffle in a nightclub earns him the attention of Jeff Davis, a small-time crime boss who is trying to legitimize his income streams. To do so, he needs to eliminate four...

John Smith, a Clandestine Recovery Specialist for Reflex Engineering, is making the trip home to southeast Alabama for Thanksgiving, for the first time in over a decade. The holidays present the ideal opportunity to introduce his new girlfriend to his family. While in town, his employer asks him to...

An Italian police detective investigates a teacher’s murder in a novel by one of the “10 Best Modern European Crime Writers” (The Observer). Commissario Trotti of Italy’s Polizia di Stato is called to the scene of the brutal murder of an old friend, schoolteacher Rosanna Belloni, who...

From one of The Observer’s “10 Best Modern European Crime Writers”—a murder mystery set on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.   The sun-drenched Caribbean island of Guadeloupe is technically part of France, subject to French law and loyal to the French Republic. But in 1980, the scars...

From one of the Guardian’s “10 Best Modern European Crime Writers,” this mystery set in the Caribbean stars “a fascinating heroine” (Kirkus Reviews).   It’s the spring of 1990, and French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveaud has been living and working in the French Caribbean department...

Northern Italy, 1993: After what seems like several lifetimes as a policeman in the Questura, Commissario Trotti is ready for retirement. Soon, he’ll be able to fulfill his dream of moving to the countryside villa he co-owns with his cousin, where his daily business will be tending to goats and...

A small-town kidnapping presents a major problem for an Italian police investigator, in this “gripping” crime novel by an award-winning author (Publishers Weekly). Northern Italy, 1978: Commissario Piero Trotti, trusted senior police investigator in a provincial city off the River Po, has...

In Italy, a dogged police investigator resists retirement—and plunges into a case that has rocked the city: “Breathtakingly good” (London Evening Standard). Northern Italy, 1985: Commissario Piero Trotti is fifty-six years old, and though he is widely respected on the police force for...

Cameisha Douglass has it all -- a sprawling home in a posh neighborhood, a fancy car, three healthy children, and a husband, Fashad, who is devoted to her. Her biggest worry is catching her daytime soap operas before the kids come home from school and her husband returns from work, "businesses" that...

Since the 1980s, an array of legal and non-legal practices—labeled Transitional Justice—has been developed to support post-repressive, post-authoritarian, and post-conflict societies in dealing with their traumatic past. In Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice, the contributors analyze...