italian crime fiction

Tina, Mafia Soldier by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli

23 March, 2023

Translated by Robin Pickering-Iazzi — Fact and fiction fuse in feminist Italian author Maria Rosa Cutrufelli’s first novel, Tina, Mafia Soldier, which is also the author’s first to be translated into English. Originally published in 1994, Tina Cannizzaro’s story was inspired by that of Emanuela…

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The Whisperer’s Game by Donato Carrisi

By Paul Burke

14 July, 2022

Translated by Katherine Gregor — Hot on the heels of The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler comes a very different but equally chilling serial killer thriller from Italian maestro Donato Carrisi. It’s a decade since his debut, The Whisperer, which terrified readers across the continent….

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Riccardino by Andrea Camilleri

By Paul Burke

15 October, 2021

Translated by Stephen Sartarelli — The publication of the Inspector Montalbano stories in English spans nearly two decades so it’s no wonder we have formed such an attachment to the irascible but brilliant detective. Now, however, the curtain is about to fall and we must…

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A guide to the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri

By Paul Burke

6 October, 2021

The writer Simonetta Agnello Hornby argued that Andrea Camilleri should have been put forward for the Nobel Prize. He was a major cultural figure in Italy, and in the arts across Europe. Of course, he’s better known in the English speaking world as the creator…

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The Measure of Time by Gianrico Carofiglio

By Vicki Weisfeld

27 April, 2021

Translated by Howard Curtis — Guido Guerrieri is a lawyer of middle years who practices in Bari, on Italy’s Adriatic coast. In this, Gianrico Carofiglio’s sixth legal thriller featuring Guerrieri, a case with uncomfortable links to the protagonist’s past finds its way to his door….

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The Hunter – Italian crime show comes to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

7 April, 2021

Some crime shows give you a clever mystery to solve, involving interesting characters. Others take you away to an unusual, atmospheric location where, perhaps, things aren’t quite as they seem. Then there’s the kind that drop you into a situation that’s almost too difficult to…

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Noir Italiano on More4 with Thou Shalt Not Kill season 2

By crimefictionlover

4 March, 2020

The beautiful and troubled young detective Valeria Ferro is returning to UK screens on 20 March as the second series of Thou Shalt Not Kill begins airing on More4, with episodes ready to stream on Walter Presents at the same time. If you’re used to…

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Sanctuary

By Mal McEwan

2 October, 2019

Luca D’Andrea gives us an intense thriller with an atmospheric South Tyrolean setting that, in some respects, defies genre pigeon holing. It’s part rural noir and part psychological page turner that has many familiar tropes but steers through the clichés with panache. Marlene Wegener is…

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Tina, Mafia Soldier by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli

The Whisperer’s Game by Donato Carrisi

Riccardino by Andrea Camilleri

A guide to the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri

The Measure of Time by Gianrico Carofiglio

The Hunter – Italian crime show comes to Walter Presents

Noir Italiano on More4 with Thou Shalt Not Kill season 2

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