Italienische Intrige: Ein Commissario-De-Luca-Krimi

by Carlo Lucarelli

Weihnachtszeit 1953, mitten im Kalten Krieg. Im eiskalten, schneebedeckten Bologna geschieht ein Die schöne Professorengattin wird in der Badewanne der Stadtwohnung ihres Mannes ertränkt. Commissario De Luca, ehemals „bester Polizist Italiens“, nimmt nach fünf Jahren unfreiwilligen Urlaubs die Ermittlungen auf. Doch nichts ist, wie es scheint. Die Nachforschungen und die Leidenschaft für eine junge, dunkelhäutige Jazzsängerin kosten De Luca fast Kopf und Kragen, und am Ende steht er vor einer schwerwiegenden Entscheidung.

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Published August 21, 2018

About the author

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.

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Series:
* Commissario De Luca
* Inspector Collandro
* Inspector Grazia Negro

Reviews

[Celina2301]

Storyline very interesting but hard to read because direct speech isn‘t in quotation marks. But still a good book.

[Barbara Heckendorn]

Christmas 1953, in the middle of the Cold War. A murder takes place in ice-cold, snow-covered Bologna: the beautiful wife of a professor is drowned in the bathtub of her husband's city flat. Commissario De Luca, formerly ‘Italy's best policeman’, takes up the investigation after five years of involuntary leave. But nothing is as it seems. The enquiries and his passion for a young, dark-skinned jazz singer almost cost De Luca his life, and in the end he is faced with a difficult decision.
This was an interesting book. It transports me as a reader to another time. I learnt a lot about the political realities of Italy during and after WWII that I hadn't realised before. So much surveillance from different factions made this book very exciting.