by Carlo Lucarelli
read by Daniel Philpott
A serial killer is terrorising the people of Bologna, and Detective Inspector Grazia Negro is determined to solve the case. Only one witness can identify the killer, and he is blind. Simone spends his days listening to Elvis Costello's Almost Blue and scanning the radio waves of the city, eavesdropping on other people's lives. He imagines what people are like - based on the colour of their voices - and his acute hearing sets alarm bells ringing when he tunes in to the killer.
Lucarelli puts his reader right into the heart of the action, whether with the vulnerable Simone or with the psychotic killer obsessed with reincarnating himself as each of his victims in a desperate bid to escape his inner demons. This novel signals the emergence of a major European master of noir.
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