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    "A danse macabre for millennials" from the author of 70% Acrylic 30% Wool, winner of the Campiello First Novel Award ( Los Angeles Review of Books).A finalist for the PEN Literary Award for Translation, this courageous, inventive, and intelligent novel tells the story of a suicide and what follows. Viola Di Grado has given voice to an astonishing vision of life after life, portraying the awful ... Read more

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  • Suburra

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  • I Hadn't Understood

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    Series Book 1 - The Vincenzo Malinconico Novels
    This "sharp-edged comedic novel of a semi-hapless Italian lawyer" who finds himself employed by the mob was a finalist for Italy's prestigious Strega Prize ( Kirkus Reviews).Vincenzo Malinconico is a wildly unsuccessful lawyer who spends most of his time at the office trying to look busy. His wife has left him. His teenage children worry him to death. And he suffers from a chronic inability to ... Read more

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  • Tasmania

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    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    **A Best Book of 2024 by The New YorkerAfter losing the future he imagined for himself, a writer sets out in search of connection and purpose at a tipping point with climate change and global conflict, in this breathtaking novel from the Strega Prize–winning author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers.**In late 2015, Paolo feels his life coming apart: While his wife, Lorenza, has decided to give up on ... Read more

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  • The Bastards of Pizzofalcone

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    Series Book 1 - The Bastards of Pizzofalcone Series
    The "engrossing" sequel to The Crocodile kicks off an Italian crime fiction series by the author of the bestselling Commissario Ricciardi novels ( Publishers Weekly).They've made a fresh start at the Pizzofalcone precinct of Naples. They fired every member of the investigative branch after they were found guilty of corruption. Now, there's a group of detectives, a new commissario, and a new ... Read more

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  • Smoke in Berlin

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    Series Book 2 - Hugo Fischer
    A beautiful, atmospheric detective story set in Berlin during The Second World War. Oriana Ramunno's Hugo Fischer series is full of tension, drama and, ultimately, hope.A DETECTIVE WITH A SECRETBerlin, June 1944. Hugo Fischer is forced to work for the Nazi secret service, but he carries dangerous secrets he must conceal. Gioele is not his son, but a Jewish boy he rescued during an investigation at ... Read more

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  • Bandit Love

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    Series Book 3 - The Alligator Mysteries
    PI Marco "the Alligator" Buratti returns in a thriller from the author whose "brand of crime writing is tougher than even the toughest American noir" (Josh Bazell, national bestselling author).Massimo Carlotto has been described as "the reigning king of Mediterranean noir" ( Boston Phoenix), "about as gritty as they come" ( The New York Times), and "the best living Italian crime writer" ( Il ... Read more

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  • The Athenian Women

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    "A raw and compelling portrait of 411 BC Greece in which women must fight for justice and democracy" by the Strega Prize–winning Italian novelist ( La Stampa).Athens, 411 BC. As the Peloponnesian War draws to a close, a political coup begins to take shape in Athens. Veterans of the infamous battle of Mantinea, Thrasyllus, and Polemon now live as humble farmers in the countryside. They are ... Read more

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  • At the End of a Dull Day

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    Series Book 2 - The Giorgio Pellegrini Novels
    An explosive crime thriller from the author of The Goodbye Kiss, "the reigning king of Mediterranean noir" ( Boston Phoenix).Giorgio Pellegrini, the hero of The Goodbye Kiss, has been living an "honest" life for eleven years. But that's about to change. His lawyer has been deceiving him and now Giorgio is forced into service as an unwilling errand boy for an organized crime syndicate. At one time, ... Read more

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  • Viper

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    Series Book 6 - The Commissario Ricciardi Mysteries
    Commissario Ricciardi, "one of the most interesting and well-drawn detectives in fiction," returns in this historical mystery by the author of By My Hand ( The Daily Beast).It is one week before Easter, Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead. Suffocated with a pillow. Her last client swears that when ... Read more

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  • The Black Cats Bookshop

    A Novel

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    An inventive international bestseller set in a bookstore filled with crime novels, cats, amateur detectives, and a very grumpy bookseller.The Black Cats Bookshop in Southern Italy has everything a crime fiction lover could dream of: shelves stacked with Christie, Penny, Osman, and King, a book club full of amateur detectives who once solved a real-life cold case . . . and a terrifying masked ... Read more

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  • For All the Gold in the World

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    Series Book 5 - The Alligator Mysteries
    "The best living Italian crime writer" immerses readers in a gritty noir novel featuring PI Marco "the Alligator" Buratti ( Il Manifesto).This novel, by one of Italy's bestselling crime novelists, provides a unique perspective on the criminal and social dynamics that dominate contemporary Italy.One of the many robberies that plague Northeast Italy goes wrong and ends with a brutal murder. The ... Read more

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