The Damned Season
<p>"A fresh and exciting new voice in Italian crime fiction. Keep the translations coming."-<em>Booklist</em></p> <p>It is 1946. De Luca suffers from insomnia and has lost his appetite. He's got problems with women and a case that he can't crack. In this second installment of the heralded <em>De Luca trilogy,</em> 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 Italy's postwar power struggle.</p>