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The Girl with the Crystal Eyes
2008
First Published
3.39
Average Rating
270
Number of Pages
Hot off the Italian charts, this serial killer chiller introduces a remarkable noir writer whose tales of bloody imagination and seductive perversity recall the films of Dario Argento This unforgettable gothic journey through the dark streets of Bologna follows a beautiful killer, a cop determined to unravel an enigmatic tale of bloody butchery, and a young medium fleeing her past. A twisted game of life and death unfolds between the hunter and the hunted, murderer and detective, night and day, and the female of the species proves as daringly evil as Hannibal Lecter, giving a whole new meaning to "femme fatale."
Avg Rating
3.39
Number of Ratings
176
5 STARS
19%
4 STARS
31%
3 STARS
25%
2 STARS
20%
1 STARS
5%
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Author

Barbara Baraldi
Barbara Baraldi
Author · 11 books

BARBARA BARALDI è autrice di romanzi noir, libri per ragazzi e sceneggiature di fumetti. Scrive per Mondadori la saga dark fantasy “Scarlett”, giunta al secondo capitolo, intitolato «Il bacio del demone». Insieme a Camilleri, Lucarelli, Carlotto e De Cataldo, è protagonista di «Italian noir», il documentario prodotto dalla BBC sul thriller italiano. È vincitrice di vari premi letterari, tra cui il Gran Giallo città di Cattolica e il premio Valtenesi. I suoi libri sono accolti con favore dalla critica e dal pubblico, e sono pubblicati in nove Paesi, tra cui Germania, Inghilterra e Stati Uniti. Alcuni titoli: «La bambola dagli occhi di cristallo», «Lullaby – La ninna nanna della morte», «La casa di Amelia». From Wikipedia: Barbara Baraldi is an Italian mystery writer. A native of Mirandola, she currently lives near Modena. Her debut novel is La ragazza dalle ali di serpente, published in 2007, under the pseudonym of Luna Lanzoni. As a noir fiction’s writer she received, for two consecutive years, the Marco Casacci Prizes with two short stories: “Dorothy non vuole morire” and “La sindrome felicità repulsiva”. For her short novel Una storia da rubare she won the Premio Gran Giallo Città di Cattolica. At the end of 2007 she published the novel La collezionista di sogni infranti (PerdisaPop) in a book series by Luigi Bernardi. Two of her novels, La bambola dagli occhi di cristallo and Il giardino dei bambini perduti, were published in 2008 by Mondadori on Il Giallo Mondadori Presenta. In 2009 she published the novel La casa di Amelia (PerdisaPop), a sequel to her previous work for the book series by Luigi Bernardi. The novel La casa dagli specchi rotti came out at the end of 2009 in an anthology inspired by the cinematographic Italian Giallo of Dario Argento published by Mondadori on Il Giallo Mondadori. In the first half of 2010 they are published two novels: Bambole pericolose on Il Giallo Mondadori and Lullaby – La ninna nanna della morte (Castelvecchi). In may 2010 it is published in Italy Scarlett (Mondadori), an urban fantasy novel with crime fiction influences, set in Tuscany. Her novel The girl with the crystal eyes is published in England by John Blake Publishing. Link to the interview released to The rap sheet: http://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2010/... Read the review of The girl with the crystal eyes on The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ent...

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