Almost Blue
$26.77
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2004
Summary
‘A compact and powerful masterpiece’ - Guardian
Shortlisted for CWA Gold Dagger Award
A serial killer is terrorising the people of Bologna and rookie Detective Inspector Grazia Negro is determined to solve the case. She only has one witness who can identify the killer - and he is blind.
Simone spends his nights listening to Chet Baker and scanning the radio waves of the city, eavesdropping on other people’s lives. He imagines what people are like - based on the ‘colour…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099459439 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099459434 |
| Author: | Carlo Lucarelli |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2004 |
| Weight: | 108g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 112mm x 177mm |
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Critics Review
A stunning tour de force
A stunning tour de force * Sunday Telegraph *
With a brilliantly psychotic villain shadowing Simone and Grazia, and a roller coaster plot that never slows…this is a compact and powerful masterpiece… More, please * Guardian *
It’s a thrill being in that darkened room with Simone as he eavesdrops on the killer… Eerie * New York Times *
Vivid and impressionistic… A virtuoso performance * Literary Review *
Eerily atmospheric, breathlessly paced and genuinely gripping * Maxim *
Carlo Lucarelli
Carlo Lucarelli was born in 1960 in Modena, Italy. He has written eleven noir novels and his work has been translated into many languages. He hosts a popular late-night television show in Italy that examines unsettling and unsolved crimes. He also teaches creative writing in Turin and edits an on-line magazine. He has written one other novel called Day After Day.
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