Italian Crime Fiction
Explore the best Italian crime fiction books with gripping plots, dark mysteries, and unforgettable detectives. Discover top-rated noir, thriller, and giallo novels from Italy's finest authors.
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Via Delle Oche
by Carlo Lucarelli
The final book in the De Luca trilogy. There has been a murder on Via delle Oche, the Bologna street at the center the city's …
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Night Bus
by Giampiero Rigosi
A thrilling black comedy: Leila, a young, beautiful hustler gets caught up in the centre of a political blackmail plot when a document ends up …
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Blackout
by Gianluca Morozzi
Bologna on the 15th August. Unbearable heat, an empty city. Claudia is a young student in a hurry to return to the hospital bedside of …
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Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
by Amara Lakhous
After the body of a tenant is discovered in the elevator of an apartment building in Rome, the police gather widely different accounts of what …
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First Execution
by Domenico Starnone
When retired teacher Domenico Stasi learns that Nina, his former student, has been accused of armed conspiracy, he agrees to help her by doing a …
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The Father and the Foreigner
by Giancarlo De Cataldo
A slim but touching and autobiographical noir novel from one of Italy's best writers in the genre.--"Quanderni Noir" (Italy).
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Inspector Cataldo's Criminal Summer
by Luigi Guicciardi
In a quiet holiday town in the Italian Apennines, during a torrid summer, a string of gruesome deaths stirs up trouble in the local community. …
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Voice of the Violin
by Andrea Camilleri
“You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring …
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The Paper Moon
by Andrea Camilleri
Inspector Montalbano investigates the fatal shooting of a man and finds himself dealing with two beautiful women as prime suspects, mysterious computer codes, threatening letters, …
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August Heat
by Andrea Camilleri
“The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humor, and the sense of despair that fills the air of …
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The Wings of the Sphinx
by Andrea Camilleri
“You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring …
