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Almost Blue
  • Published: 1 October 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099459439
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $24.99

Almost Blue



'A compact and powerful masterpiece' Guardian

Shortlisted for CWA Gold Dagger Award

A serial killer is terrorising the people of Bologna and rookie Detective Inspector Grazia Negro is determined to solve the case. She only has one witness who can identify the killer - and he is blind. Simone spends his nights listening to Chet Baker and scanning the radio waves of the city, eavesdropping on other people's lives. He imagines what people are like - based on the 'colour' of their voice - and his acute hearing sets alarm bells ringing when he tunes in to the killer. Together Simone and Negro are the only people able to stop the killer, before he closes in on Simone.

From the diverse perspectives of the detective, the blind Simone and the killer, Lucarelli, master of Italian noir, weaves a gripping thriller.

  • Published: 1 October 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099459439
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Carlo Lucarelli

Carlo Lucarelli was born in 1960 in Modena, Italy. He has written eleven noir novels and his work has been translated into many languages. He also teaches creative writing in Turin.

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Praise for Almost Blue

A stunning tour de force

Sunday Telegraph

With a brilliantly psychotic villain shadowing Simone and Grazia, and a roller coaster plot that never slows...this is a compact and powerful masterpiece... More, please

Guardian

It's a thrill being in that darkened room with Simone as he eavesdrops on the killer... Eerie

New York Times

Vivid and impressionistic... A virtuoso performance

Literary Review

Eerily atmospheric, breathlessly paced and genuinely gripping

Maxim