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...
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"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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781933372273 (1933372273)
Publish date: May 1st 2007
Publisher: Europa Editions
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Series: Commissario De Luca (#2)
The second novella in the De Luca trilogy, The Damned Season picks up where Carte Blanche ends. De Luca is on the run because the Second World War is not going well for Italy and the Fascists, and he has been an agent of their rule as a police officer. He is recognized by a local police officer, who...
A good friend of mine is currently working on the set of a Tv fiction serie based on this book.If I had a Tv I would be curious to see the final result on the screen, but unfortunately (or luckily) I don't have it. This book has annoyed me so much and thanks to it Lucarelli has caught his occasion t...
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