La storia del comandante Nobile e del dirigibile Italia; le epiche gesta dell'atleta statunitense Jesse Owens alle Olimpiadi di Berlino; la vicenda del reverendo Jim Jones e del massacro di Jonestown; il bizzarro caso di un hoax, un uomo enorme chiamato il gigante di Cardiff; l'avventurosa spedizione di Ernest Shackleton in Antartide; il disastro dell'LZ 129, meglio conosciuto come Hindenburg; storie d'amore e d'avventura, grandi sfide sportive e rcconti inquietanti... Venti storie incredibili, ma vere, nello stile avvincente e incalzante che ha fatto di Lucarelli un maestro indiscusso del noir.
Carlo Lucarelli was born at Parma, the son of a physician. He was interested in literature and theatre when he was young, and studied Literature and History. Nowadays he lives in Mordano near Bologna.
Already in his years of study, during his research for his thesis subject he got in touch with the material for his first two books, which take place during the time of fascism and the years immediately after the war. In Italy he became well known quite soon because of these two books, and it was only a matter of time before he quit his academic activities and turned to his career as an author and all other sorts of activities, such as writing plays, film scenarios, radio-plays and, moreover, singing in a Post-Punk-Band called "Progetto K".
He is a frequently invited moderator on an Italian television programme about crime (Blu notte misteri d'Italia). As a journalist he works for several newspapers and magazines, such as il manifesto, Il Messaggero and L'Europeo. He has written more than twenty novels, including Almost Blue, (City Lights, 2001) and numerous short stories. Together with Marcello Fois and Loriano Macchiavelli he founded "Gruppo 13", a collective of crime-writers in the region Emilia-Romagna.