num_pages: 117
description: "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. He's got problems with women and a case that he can't 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 Italy's postwar power struggle.
language: English
title: The Damned Season
titlecomplete: The Damned Season
genres: Italian Literature, Mystery, Italy, War, Detective, Thriller, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 498
series: Commissario De Luca
publisher: Europa Editions