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Marina Cafè Noir 2025 - Sardinia's crime and literature festival

By crimefictionlover
6 June, 2025
What better way to spend the summer solstice than at a noir fiction festival on the Mediterranean. From Friday 20 to Sunday 22 June, Marina Cafè Noir returns to Cagliari on the island of Sardinia. The terrace of the Bastion of Saint Remy is the…
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Last Night at Villa Lucia by Simon McCleave

By Vicki Weisfeld
8 August, 2024
What could be more appealing than a murder mystery set in an elegant villa high on a hill overlooking the Tuscan countryside? Prolific crime novelist Simon McCleave’s Last Night at Villa Lucia feels like a vacation from the first page, as the villa’s English owner…
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The Venus of Salò by Ben Pastor

By Erin Britton
4 July, 2024
It’s October 1944 and all is far from well in the Republic of Salò. As the last bastion of Fascism in Italy, the tranquil setting on the shore of Lake Garda belies the turmoil currently engulfing the seat of the German-backed puppet government. As the…
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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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Tina, Mafia Soldier by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
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 Garden of Angels by David Hewson

By Paul Burke
17 August, 2022
As the last survivors of the horrors of World War II pass on to the next world, are we in danger of forgetting the Holocaust and therefore its salutary lesson for humanity? That’s the question that underpins this novel and it’s why the dual timeline…
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Italian crime show The Hunter returns to Channel 4

By crimefictionlover
6 April, 2022
What a show this is! When we posted a preview of The Hunter season 1 on the site last year, it became one of our most popular articles of 2021 and fans of Noir Italiano loved the series, which is still available to stream on…
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