italian crime fiction

Cold Summer: Italian crime on Walter Presents

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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Interview: Gregory Dowling

By crimefictionlover

17 January, 2024

January 2024 will see the publication in English of The Lover of No Fixed Abode, a novel originally written by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini in 1986, which is set in Venice. With the authors are no longer available for interview, we decided to talk…

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The Red Door season 2: Noir Italiano on Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

12 September, 2023

Who better to investigate a murder than a murder victim, right? That’s the concept behind the Italian crime show The Red Door – La Porta Rossa – and it’s a good one. In the UK, Channel 4’s foreign crime show streaming service Walter Presents has…

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Foul Deeds and Fine Dying by Marco Malvaldi

By Erin Britton

6 June, 2023

Translated by Howard Curtis — Is there any better means of returning from the dead than appearing in a murder mystery? I expect not, particularly if the murder mystery in question is of the locked room variety. Italian businessman and cookery writer Pellegrino Artusi (1820–1911)…

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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

Interview: Gregory Dowling

The Red Door season 2: Noir Italiano on Walter Presents

Foul Deeds and Fine Dying by Marco Malvaldi

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