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 rummage through the personal effects of her hateful colleagues, who've mocked her for years, in search of compromising material to use against them. At the same time and in the very same neighborhood, a serial killer with a split personality is lurking, intent on carrying out his cruel game, entrusting the choice of his next unsuspecting victim to chance. The solitary lives of typist Alice and Cold Hands/Warm Hands are destined to fatally intertwine in the dark and unknown underground of the Prati district of Rome. The investigations into the trail of senseless crimes that Cold Hands leaves behind are entrusted to Riccardo Rosco, a commissioner with a rough character and a disastrous private life.

 

Will Alice uncover the secrets she so desperately seeks, or will she become the next pawn in Cold Hands' deadly game? Time is running out, and in the shadows of Rome, no one is safe. Don't miss this pulse-pounding thriller where every choice could be fatal.

 

 

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Excerpt Three:

 

Commissioner Rosco had carefully studied the report provided by the Forensic Police. The investigations carried out at the Abbate crime scene hadn't revealed much more than what he had anticipated. Not that all procedures weren't meticulously executed in the thorough manner the Forensic team was accustomed to working, but significant clues hadn't been found at the crime scene. The recovered fingerprints had been analyzed and compared with those in the archives, but no match had come of it. Some hair had been discovered, but it wasn’t significant evidence. Perhaps the only interesting clue 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 11 men's shoe with a boot-like sole. The others presumably belonged to women and were of different sizes. His mind returned to the image of that grate beyond which lay the cellar space of the building. The Forensic report only mentioned the fingerprints found. The space was naturally full of them, with the residents going up and down to the cellar. Rosco decided he would ask Porzi to verify the layout of the basement with the Land Registry Office and then conduct an inspection. He now had only one idea in mind. He wanted to summon Roncati and his paramour for a chat; it wouldn't be an interrogation about the murder, more of a warning relating the future.

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Daniela Alibrandi is the author of successful thrillers and noirs in Italy and abroad. With her sixteen published novels, five English editions and many short stories she is often guest on Italian RAI television and radio broadcasts, she is present in the most important national literary Italian book fairs. Some of her Italian editions are present in Harvard and Yale libraries as well as in New York Public Library. She has won numerous national literary awards, including the Women Arts Week 2022 for her literary career. For years and from various sources, such as literary critics and reviewers, this author’s style has been defined as multidimensional, until it was officialized as MultiDimensionCrime (Acronym MDCrime). A reading experience that forges imagination in a multi-dimensional way. In the complex and intertwined plots of her novels, which lead to sudden and unexpected twists, the characteristics of different strands are harmoniously blended. The reader follows the investigation to solve a 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 in the victims’ despair and terror. All in a growing suspense, both during the narration and in the final pages, when the reader often has to question all the beliefs he has developed during the reading.

 

On last July 18th, Daniela Alibrandi published her English edition of the book “Crimes After Hours”. And the settings the author chooses are always amazing and palpable. That’s what we find in “Crimes After Hours”, set in the city of Rome and in its underground world, during the late Seventies.

 

“Crimes After Hours”, in its Italian edition, has won two national literary prizes (Mondadori Contest and Grottammare Noir Competition) and is the first of the MDCrime series Rome’s Multi-Dimensional Crimes, set in Rome’s undergrounds between the late Seventies and the Eighties, whose plots are not connected and can be read independently, all standalone.

 

Author’s English website: https://danielaenglishwebsite.wordpress.com/

Author’s Italian website: https://danielaalibrandi.com/

Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/p/Daniela-Alibrandi-Autore-100056951476831/

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielaalibrandi/

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Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9MG6K5V

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