Black Run / Antonio Manzini / 255 pages

This ARC's cover drew me to this book on this snowy Presidents' Day, 2015.  A partially plowed winding snowy road is depicted with a mysterious man in the background and huge drops of blood in the foreground.  Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone has been transferred from his beloved Rome to the frozen northern town of Aosta.  When a murdered man is run over by a snowcat grooming the slopes of a local ski run, it becomes his responsibility to investigate.  This one is a page-turner and although I had the murderer ID'ed almost from the beginning, the tense narrative had me doubting my conclusions.  Also, Rocco's side business was a bit of a surprise...and a disappointment...Was this done to make our hero more human...more realistic?...just disappointing...