Blog Tour: CRIME AFTER HOURS by Daniela Alibrandi
CRIME AFTER HOURS
Daniela Alibrandi
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GENRE: Noir Multidimension Thriller
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BLURB:
Alice,a shrewish and nosy typist stays in the office after duty hours to rummagethrough the personal effects of her hateful colleagues, who've mocked her foryears, in search of compromising material to use against them. At the same timeand in the very same neighborhood, a serial killer with a split personality islurking, intent on carrying out his cruel game, entrusting the choice of hisnext unsuspecting victim to chance. The solitary lives of typist Alice and ColdHands/Warm Hands are destined to fatally intertwine in the dark and unknownunderground of the Prati district of Rome. The investigations into the trail ofsenseless crimes that Cold Hands leaves behind are entrusted to Riccardo Rosco,a commissioner with a rough character and a disastrous private life.
WillAlice uncover the secrets she so desperately seeks, or will she become the nextpawn in Cold Hands' deadly game? Time is running out, and in the shadows ofRome, no one is safe. Don't miss this pulse-pounding thriller where everychoice could be fatal.
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ExcerptThree:
Commissioner Rosco had carefully studied the report providedby the Forensic Police. The investigations carried out at the Abbate crimescene hadn't revealed much more than what he had anticipated. Not that allprocedures weren't meticulously executed in the thorough manner the Forensicteam was accustomed to working, but significant clues hadn't been found at thecrime scene. The recovered fingerprints had been analyzed and compared withthose in the archives, but no match had come of it. Some hair had beendiscovered, but it wasn’t significant evidence. Perhaps the only interestingclue concerned the footprints left by some shoes on the landing and stairs,which, accounting the rainy day, could be considered fairly clear.
He focused particularly on the measurement of a size 11men's shoe with a boot-like sole. The others presumably belonged to women andwere of different sizes. His mind returned to the image of that grate beyondwhich lay the cellar space of the building. The Forensic report only mentionedthe fingerprints found. The space was naturally full of them, with theresidents going up and down to the cellar. Rosco decided he would ask Porzi toverify the layout of the basement with the Land Registry Office and thenconduct an inspection. He now had only one idea in mind. He wanted to summonRoncati and his paramour for a chat; it wouldn't be an interrogation about themurder, more of a warning relating the future.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
DanielaAlibrandi is the author of successful thrillers and noirs in Italy and abroad.With her sixteen published novels, five English editions and many short storiesshe is often guest on Italian RAI television and radio broadcasts, she ispresent in the most important national literary Italian book fairs. Some of herItalian editions are present in Harvard and Yale libraries as well as in NewYork Public Library. She has won numerous national literary awards, includingthe Women Arts Week 2022 for her literary career. For years and from varioussources, such as literary critics and reviewers, this author’s style has beendefined as multidimensional, until it was officialized as MultiDimensionCrime(Acronym MDCrime). A reading experience that forges imagination in amulti-dimensional way. In the complex and intertwined plots of her novels,which lead to sudden and unexpected twists, the characteristics of differentstrands are harmoniously blended. The reader follows the investigation to solvea murder and at the same time he amazingly enters the mind of the killer,reasoning alongside him, preparing the crime with him, and even partaking inthe victims’ despair and terror. All in a growing suspense, both during thenarration and in the final pages, when the reader often has to question all thebeliefs he has developed during the reading.
Onlast July 18th, Daniela Alibrandi published her English edition of the book“Crimes After Hours”. And the settings the author chooses are always amazingand palpable. That’s what we find in “Crimes After Hours”, set in the city ofRome and in its underground world, during the late Seventies.
“CrimesAfter Hours”, in its Italian edition, has won two national literary prizes(Mondadori Contest and Grottammare Noir Competition) and is the first of theMDCrime series Rome’s Multi-Dimensional Crimes, set in Rome’s undergroundsbetween the late Seventies and the Eighties, whose plots are not connected andcan be read independently, all standalone.
Author’sEnglish website: https://danielaenglishwebsite.wordpress.com/
Author’sItalian website: https://danielaalibrandi.com/
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