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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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Thou Shalt Not Kill – Italian crime drama comes to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

29 July, 2019

Put away thoughts of the baking hot Sicilian afternoons you’ve seen on Inspector Montalbano. With Thou Shalt Not Kill, coming to More4 via Walter Presents from 9 August, things are going to get darker, moodier and even a little sultry. But the blood of the…

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Sanctuary

By Mal McEwan

8 July, 2019

Written by Luca D’Andrea — It was back in 2017 that we first picked up the global bestselling psychological thriller The Mountain by D’Andrea . Sanctuary is another thriller with strong psychological overtones that may be a match for D’Andrea’s five-star debut novel. We are…

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The Cold Summer by Gianrico Carofiglio

By Vicki Weisfeld

25 October, 2018

Translated by Howard Curtis — Real-life events from 1992 are woven into Gianrico Carofiglio’s fascinating contribution to Italian crime fiction. The Cold Summer is a high-stakes police procedural about the amputation of one small arm of the mafia in Apulia, a region that constitutes the…

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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

Sanctuary

Thou Shalt Not Kill – Italian crime drama comes to Walter Presents

Sanctuary

The Cold Summer by Gianrico Carofiglio

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