But pride of place must go to the first of Italian Carlo Lucarelli's Inspector Negro novels, translated by Oonagh Stransky….a compact and powerful masterpiece.
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This is the UK version of Stransky's original translation with US publisher, City Lights. It was re-released by Vintage in 2004.
"Vivid and impressionistic rather than soberly set down. Something like the music it celebrates; a virtuoso performance." Philip Oakes, Crime Roundup November 2023, Literary Review
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It's a spare, scary tone poem of a crime novel (fluidly translated by Oonagh Stransky), set in Bologna and featuring Inspector Grazia Negro, a woman detective assigned to a special unit that identifies and tracks down serial killers.