Ebook {Epub PDF} The Damned Season by Carlo Lucarelli

"The Damned Season" is Carlo Lucarelli's second short mystery novel in the Commissario de Luca series. It has been well reviewed by Amazon readers already, but I will add my admiration for Lucarelli's taut writing style and ability to deliver an engaging narrative from page one. This is a masterful writer at work and well worth the reader's time/5(14).  · The Damned Season is a slim novella that manages to capture the desperate shifting power structure at play as the fascist government collapses and people struggle to carve a favorable place in the new regime. Those who have cooperated with the fascists pay a heavy price for their crimes with justice served vigilante style outside of the bounds of a courtroom. The Damned Season continues the story of De Luca, a policeman caught up in the turmoil that is Italy at the end of World War II. Last left at the end of Carte Blanche going on the run, The Damned Season begins with him washing up in a small Italian town, a suspicious but eager policeman taking an interest in the man who claims his name is Morandi. De Luca has good reason for keeping his identity secret: all Author: Carlo Lucarelli.

The Inspector De Luca mysteries, also called the De Luca trilogy, consist of three Italian novels, Carte Blanche (it:Carta bianca (Lucarelli), ), The Damned Season (it:L'estate torbida, ), and Goose Street (it:Via Delle Oche () by Italian crime fiction writer Carlo Lucarelli.. The novels have been noted for the setting in the period between the collapse of the Fascist government of. Parma, Italy. Occupation. Novelist, Journalist, Screenwriter, Television presenter. Years active. present. Height. m (5 ft 9 in) Carlo Lucarelli (born 26 October ) is an Italian crime-writer, TV presenter, and magazine editor. He was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger in for the novel Almost Blue. By popular demand, the next books up for reading are Carlo Lucarelli's De Luca trilogy. All of them are bite-sized reads, but feel free to read as many or as few as you like. First up is Carte Blanche, second in the series is The Damned Season and finally Via Delle Oche.

Carlo Lucarelli, "The Damned Season". This is the second of Carlo Lucarelli's three novels about Commissario De Luca, a police officer by talent, inclination and temperament, if not always by title, in post-World War II Italy. The story is inextricably tied to its setting, and the book's most fascinating feature may be the preface, in which Lucarelli explains its genesis. The Damned Season is a slim novella that manages to capture the desperate shifting power structure at play as the fascist government collapses and people struggle to carve a favorable place in the new regime. Those who have cooperated with the fascists pay a heavy price for their crimes with justice served vigilante style outside of the bounds of a courtroom. THE DAMNED SEASON (Pol. Proc-Comm. De Luca-Italy) – VG Lucarelli, Carlo – 2nd in Trilogy Europa Editions, /, US Trade paperback – ISBN: First Sentence: There was a land mine in the middle of the trail.