It's time for us to move on from the Via Merulana and head elsewhere.
By popular demand, the next books up for reading are Carlo Lucarelli's De Luca trilogy. All of them are bite-sized reads, but feel free to read as many or as few as you like.
First up is Carte Blanche, second in the series is The Damned Season and finally Via Delle Oche. For those unfamiliar with the premise, the books are set in the dying days of the Fascist regime. So, a bit like our first book, the Duce looms large.
I have been busy buying up other titles too and will be moving onto them after I have consumed the Lucarellis. In the pipeline, in no particular order, are Leonardo Sciascia's A Simple Story, Michele Giuttari's A Death in Calabria, the 11th Montalbano mystery by Andrea Camilleri The Wings of the Sphinx and, finally, a new one on me, just spotted in my local Waterstones - Death in August by Marco Vichi.
So, plenty to be going on with, plenty to discuss, hopefully. Now bring me my espresso, a shot of grappa and my, er, reading glasses.
