Born
in Parma, Carlo Lucarelli is considered to be one of the best Italian mystery
authors. Journalist, playwright, author of movie scripts and professor of
creative writing, his first book Carta Bianca was published in 1990 and is
based on a university thesis on police work during the Republic of Salò.
This was not only the start to a successful career but also the first of
a series of three detective stories based during the various periods of
the Fascist regime ending with the birth of the Republic of Italy and featuring
Inspector De Luca. Winner of numerous Italian mystery awards, he has also
written two further series: the first with Superintendent Coliandro, a type
of Dirty Harry made in Italy, and a second with Inspector Grazia Negro hunting
for serial killers. Lucarelli has also written mysteries for children and
has a successful television program on the Italian State Channel that revisits
and analysis unsolved murders. His books have successfully been translated
into French.
COMMISSARIO
DE LUCA SERIES
CARTA BIANCA
April
1945. In the last days of the Republic of Salò, a homicide opens
up the lifestyle of the hierarchy, a financial-espionage trafficking
between the regime and the Nazis, and the corruption of a a dying
authority. Hours before the final collapse, Inspector De Luca finds
a turbid truth and is called to make a decision.
L'ESTATE
TORBIDA
In
a hot summer before the fall of the Fascist regime, De Luca is unofficially
called to investigate a number of murders with mysterious motives
and extremely delicate consequences.
VIA DELLE OCHE
In
Via delle Oche, in Bologna, there is the red light district. Months
before the elections where the Italians are called to choose between
communists and christian democrats, Inspector De Luca has to solve
a mysterious murder which may have very serious political consequences.
SOVRINTENDENTE
COLIANDRO SERIES
FALANGE ARMATA
IL GIORNO DEL LUPO
Only
Coliandro can help Nikita plunge into a sea of problems. He has
to protect her but in the end it is Nikita who is protecting the
Inspector as he moves further and further into an investigation
on the new organized crime which is bloodier than the mafia.
NIKITA
Tall,
beautiful. Her name is Nikita. Silly and rather full of himself.
His name is Coliandro. They meet by chance and this is the beginning
of an explosive adventure.
ISPETTORE
GRAZIA NEGRO SERIES
LUPO MANNARO
ALMOST BLUE
A
thriller but also a melancholic love story. The Iguana is a serial
killer who changes identity at every murder. He becomes his victims.
Grazia Negro knows everything about his past, but who is the Iguana
going to become now?
UN GIORNO DOPO L'ALTRO
Italy
with its cities and streets, a determined policewoman specialized
in the hunt of serial killers, a kid who by chance intercepts the
wrong kind of message, a professional assassin who is brilliant
at disguise and can only be contacted via internet. The lonely people
on a man hunt.
OTHER
NON SERIES
INDAGINE NON AUTORIZZATA
Riccione,
1936. Near Hotel Des Bains, where Mussolini goes on holiday with
his family, a murder is discovered. In a panic the police arrest
the presumed killer, but for Inspector Marino, something is not
quite right...
VORREI ESSERE
IL PILOTA DI UNO ZERO
GUERNICA
Who
is the wolf, the black devil that terrorizes whoever is near him?
Why is he escaping to Guernica? Who are the two people that are
looking for him? And what will they find at Guernica?
AUTOSOLE
Stories
of people in fast cars moving along the highways of Italy towards
an uncertain destination.
L'ISOLA DELL'ANGELO
CADUTO
An
island near Sicily. January 8 1925. Italy is moving from a wild
illegality to a fascist illegality. The corpse of a black shirt
is found on a remote beach. The inspector is not only an enemy of
the regime but as he pursues into the investigation he will find
the worst side of both the island as well as the regime.
The
most intriguing unsolved cases that the author analyzed in the RAI
Television programs of 1998 and 1999.
LAURA DI RIMINI
A
mistake. Laura picks up the wrong bag. Inside there are four kilos
of pure cocaine. To save herself from Italians, Russians, corrupt
police and many others, she will have to give that bag back to the
"legitimate" owners.
Born
in Parma, Carlo Lucarelli is considered to be one of the best Italian mystery
authors. Journalist, playwright, author of movie scripts and professor of
creative writing, his first book Carta Bianca was published in 1990 and is
based on a university thesis on police work during the Republic of Salò.
This was not only the start to a successful career but also the first of
a series of three detective stories based during the various periods of
the Fascist regime ending with the birth of the Republic of Italy and featuring
Inspector De Luca. Winner of numerous Italian mystery awards, he has also
written two further series: the first with Superintendent Coliandro, a type
of Dirty Harry made in Italy, and a second with Inspector Grazia Negro hunting
for serial killers. Lucarelli has also written mysteries for children and
has a successful television program on the Italian State Channel that revisits
and analysis unsolved murders. His books have successfully been translated
into French. 
