Ah, wouldnt it be nice to get away from this rainy weather? Somewhere nice and sunny, where the foods great and everythings perfect? Like Italy. Except things arent quite so perfect in these two Italian crime books. No, death stalks each of them like a 4am tomcat. First off, in The Crocodile by Maurizio de Giovanni, a serial murderer is loose on the streets of Naples executing teenagers with impunity. Can Detective Inspector Giuseppe Lojacano track the killer down? Read our review here: crimefictionlover/2014/08/the-crocodile/ Then we have an Italian crime novel written very much in the style of a Golden Age mystery. Here it wasnt the butler. He was actually the victim. Epicurean turned sleuth Pellegrino Artusi pokes his way around the rich-but-mad Roccapendente family to find out who did it. Review here: crimefictionlover/2014/08/the-art-of-killing-well/ Prego!
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:40:32 +0000
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