The Damned Season

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"A fresh and exciting new voice in Italian crime fiction. Keep the translations coming."-Booklist It is 1946. De Luca suffers from insomnia and has lost his appetite. Hes got problems with women and a case that he cant crack. In this second installment of the heralded De Luca trilogy the Commissario is posing as a certain Giovanni Morandi to avoid reprisals for the role he played during the fascist dictatorship. Exposed by a member of the partisan police De Luca is forced to investigate a series of brutal murders becoming a reluctant player in Italys postwar power struggle.