'A compact and powerful masterpiece' Guardian Shortlisted for CWA Gold Dagger Award

"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

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 hosts a popular late-night television show in Italy that examines unsettling and unsolved crimes. He also teaches creative writing in Turin and edits an on-line magazine. He has written one other novel called Day After Day.