Carlo Lucarelli Books In Order

Inspector Negro Books In Order

  1. Almost Blue (2001)
  2. Day After Day (2004)

Commissario De Luca Books In Order

  1. Carte Blanche (2006)
  2. The Damned Season (2007)
  3. Via Delle Oche (2008)

Omnibus

  1. Judges (2014)

Collections

  1. Outsiders (2013)

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Carlo Lucarelli Books Overview

Almost Blue

A psychopathic killer of university students is on the loose in Bologna. Rookie detective Grazia Negro is put in charge of this critical investigation, with only her gut instincts to guide her. She gets an unexpected breakthrough when she meets Simone, a young blind man who spends his days at home alone, listening to jazz and to the sounds of the city on his scanner. From the multiple perspectives of the detective, the blind man, and the assassin, Lucarelli weaves a gripping thriller. Carlo Lucarelli, one of the most exciting young writers in Europe, has written eleven novels, all of them noirs. He also hosts a television series, teaches writing in Torino, sings in a post punk band, and edits an on line magazine, Incubatoio 16.

Carte Blanche

‘Carlo Lucarelli is the great promise of Italian crime writing.’ La Stampa April 1945, Italy. Commissario De Luca is heading up a dangerous investigation into the private lives of the rich and powerful during the frantic final days of the facist regime. The hierarchy has guaranteed De Luca their full cooperation, just so long as he arrests the ‘right’ suspect. The house of cards built by Mussolini in the last months of WWII is collapsing and De Luca faces a world mired in sad*istic sex, dirty money, drugs and murder. One of Italy’s best loved crime writers, Carlo Lucarelli has published over a dozen novels and short story collections.

The Damned Season

‘A fresh and exciting new voice in Italian crime fiction. Keep the translations coming.’ Booklist It is 1946. De Luca suffers from insomnia and has lost his appetite. He’s got problems with women and a case that he can’t crack. In this second installment of the heralded De Luca trilogy, the Commissario is posing as a certain Giovanni Morandi to avoid reprisals for the role he played during the fascist dictatorship. Exposed by a member of the partisan police, De Luca is forced to investigate a series of brutal murders, becoming a reluctant player in Italy’s postwar power struggle.

Via Delle Oche

It is 1948. Italy’s fate is soon to be decided in bitterly contested national elections. A man has been found dead in Via Delle Oche, at the center of Bologna s notorious red light district. Commissario De Luca is unwilling to look the other way when evidence in the man s death points to local politicians and members of the Bologna police force. The brutal worlds of crime and politics conspire once again, and in this third and final book in the De Luca trilogy, winner of both the Italian Mystery Award and the Scerbanenco Prize, violence, power, and sex combine to create an atmosphere that becomes more volatile as the trilogy reaches its shocking finale.

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