italian crime fiction

An Enigma by the Sea by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini

By Paul Burke

13 February, 2026

Translated by Gregory Dowling — A lot of Italian crime fiction in English is dark, mafia-related or snowbound. Manzini, Carlotto, de Cataldo and Roberto Saviano spring to mind. The Fruttero and Lucentini novels are different, lighter, witty, slightly eccentric and colourful but no less steeped…

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New Italian crime drama Inspector Gerri comes to More4

By crimefictionlover

30 July, 2025

Get ready to head to Puglia, the heel of Italy’s famous boot, when Inspector Gerri arrives on More4 in the UK – starting at 9pm on Friday 8 August 2025. The programme will also be available to stream on Walter Presents. Episode one begins with…

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Pale Mountains: Murder in the Italian Alps

By crimefictionlover

6 June, 2025

Channel 4 and Walter Presents have set a new destination on our crime drama map. From Friday 13 June, you’ll be able to stream your way to Bolzano, a city high in the Italian Alps, where a serial killer has emerged from dormancy and an…

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Cold Summer: Italian crime on Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

17 April, 2025

Beautiful Bari on the Adriatic is your next destination, if you tune in to Cold Summer – airing on Channel 4 at midnight on Sundays for eight weeks from 13 April, and available to stream on Walter Presents. But don’t expect sunny beaches and azure…

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Runaway Horses by Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini

By Vicki Weisfeld

26 January, 2025

Translated by Gregory Dowling — Runaway Horses, a mystery by the Italian literary duo Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, was first published in Italy in the 1980s and is only now available in English. This story, which is almost impossible to describe, presages today’s trend…

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First look: Runaway Horses by Fruttero and Lucentini

By crimefictionlover

14 January, 2025

We love an attractive, artful book cover – so let’s take a moment to admire the jacket for Runaway Horses by the Italian authors Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini. With a horse race central to the storyline, we see jockeys galloping across a terracotta scene,…

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The Lover of No Fixed Abode by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini

By Paul Burke

8 February, 2024

Translated by Gregory Dowling — It’s surprising it has taken so long for The Lover of No Fixed Abode to appear in English. Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini were highly respected Italian journalists and authors whose novels were bestsellers across Europe, a partnership that began…

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Daughter of Ashes by Ilaria Tuti

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

25 January, 2024

Translated by Ekin Oklap — Daughter of Ashes is the third and possibly final instalment in Italian author Ilaria Tuti’s Teresa Battaglia series. It follows on from Painted in Blood in 2022, which was also published as The Sleeping Nymph. This bittersweet conclusion takes place…

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An Enigma by the Sea by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini

New Italian crime drama Inspector Gerri comes to More4

Pale Mountains: Murder in the Italian Alps

Cold Summer: Italian crime on Walter Presents

Runaway Horses by Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini

First look: Runaway Horses by Fruttero and Lucentini

The Lover of No Fixed Abode by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini

Daughter of Ashes by Ilaria Tuti

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