Crimes After Hours by Daniela Alibrandi
If you love Sherlock Holmes’ brilliant deductions in A Study in Scarlet, the mind-bending twists of Digital Fortress, and the gritty vibe of A is for Alibi, you’re going to get hooked on Crimes After Hours. This thriller takes you into the shadowy depths of Rome’s Prati district, spinning a tale of murder, mystery, and suspense that’s impossible to put down. Like Digital Fortress, it’s a clever game of cat and mouse between a devious killer and investigator, Riccardo Rosco, who dives into the city’s hidden corners in search of the truth. With every twist and turn, Crimes After Hours keeps you on edge, pulling you deeper into its tangled web.
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Book Details
CRIMES AFTER HOURS by Daniela Alibrandi Series: ROME'S MULTIDIMENSIONAL CRIMES #1
Published by Independently Published on July 17, 2024
Genres: Age: Adult, Fiction, Crime, Detective/Sleuth, Noir, Thriller
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 282
Source: Goddess Fish PromotionsA shrewish and nosy typist decides to stay in the office after duty hours, to rummage through the personal effects of her hated colleagues, that mock her since years, in search of compromising material to use against them.
At the same time and in the very neighborhood, a cynical murderer 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 Alice and Cold Hands/Warm Hands are destined to fatally intertwine because of 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.
Rome and the particular conformation of its Prati neighborhood, captured in the late Seventies and masterfully recalled, take on a primary role in the unfolding of the events in this novel that, due to its multidimensional shape and high narrative tension, is to be read in one breath.
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Excerpt from Crimes After Hours
Often, she had thought about it, every time she had seen her colleagues leaving one by one, each caught up in the vortex of their own lives from which they already seemed to be sucked in. She watched them while some left slowly, some more hurriedly, all putting on their coats and hats and disappearing beyond the entrance door, at the end of the smoky hallway. Remaining in the office after working time, that was the thought lingering in her mind for a while. That would be the right moment when she could start her own personal investigation, uncovering what their lives might be hiding.
Everyone had managed to establish sentimental relationships, some stable and others fleeting, and each one had something that drew outside of those gray and anonymous walls. Not her, though; she had long been labeled as antisocial, bitter, single, introverted, irritable, and difficult, despite her age not yet surpassing thirty-five years.
And now finally she was alone, walking down the hallway where office doors opened, moistening her thin lips with the tongue, like someone about to eat a tasty meal, free to delve into the lives of others.
The door had creaked slightly. The warm light from the lamp left on the desk greeted her like the torch of a cinema mask, giving her the same urge to uncover a new story, a vulnerable world that revealed itself in all its fragility. The time and tranquility allowed her to settle into the comfortable dark leather swivel armchair, much more comfortable than the rigid chair where she was forced to sit for hours at the typewriter.
She played with it for a few minutes, twirling it around, enjoying the effect of being able to gain a different height, higher if it spun to the right, lower if to the left. Then she started caressing the edge of the desk, as if to test the reality that the coward touched every day, until she decided to squat down and start rummaging through his drawers, starting with those that didn’t seem to be locked.
Excerpt provided by the author/publisher for use in this post.
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Purchase Links for Crimes After Hours
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- ALIBRANDI, DANIELA (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 267 Pages - 07/16/2024 (Publication Date)
- ALIBRANDI, DANIELA (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 282 Pages - 07/17/2024 (Publication Date) - Independently published (Publisher)
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My Thoughts on Crimes After Hours
Crimes After Hours is a thematic noir thriller from Daniela Alibrandi. It is saturated with themes of dual personalities, secrets, deception, crime and justice, women’s vulnerability, and more.
Alice’s after-hours snooping for compromising material on her colleagues highlights the prevalence of secrets and the lengths individuals go to maintain facades.
Set in Rome’s Prati district during the late 1970s, the novel portrays the city as a character teeming with life, yet shadowed by isolation and danger lurking beneath the surface.
These themes combine to form a dark, unputdownable thriller. As is expected in a noir story, these characters are not your typical cheery, likable folks. They are each flawed in their own way. But disliking a character does not ruin a good book. That dislike is used as a trope that keeps the reader engaged.
If you love dark, noir psychological thrillers, this book is perfect for you.
I received a copy of the book for the tour. This review is my honest, unbiased opinion.
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About Daniela Alibrandi
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.
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This looks like a great read. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you. Sure it is! It’s a multidimensional reading able of capturing attention from the first to the last pages, bringing to “live” the situations and settings of an unusual Rome, seen in its splendor on the surface, but also in its underground meanders. Have a good read!
Wow, looks really interesting. I’m always interested in a good thriller.
Thank you Pooja. I can say that reading this book you’ll “live” in a good thriller. That’s why it is a MultiDimensionCrime, my original style, that makes you investigate with the team, prepare the murder in the mind of the killer, and suffer the desperation of the victim, in a constant suspense full of twists and turns. Have a good read!
That sounds like a unique style, will definitely check out the book!
Thank you Pooja, I wish you a good read and I look forward to having your impressions!
Thanks!
You’re welcome!
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Do you have any New Year’s resolutions?
Thank you Tracy. The most important purpose is to always write and write and write in the New Year! I live in Italy and I am already in 2025! Here is 1 a.m. and we had big celebrations with fire works and so on. Happy New Year!
This sounds like a good read.
Thank you Marcy, it really is. The plot is very compelling and full of twists. You will find yourself investigating with the team, preparing the crime in the mind of the killer and suffering the desperation of the victim, in a multidimensional reading. The setting in the city of Rome and its underground world will do the rest. And Happy New Year!
I liked the excerpt.
Thanks Rita, I’m glad you liked the excerpt and it’s just the beginning of an engaging plot set in the fascinating frame of the Eternal City and its underground world. Have a good read and a Happy New Year!
Happy New Year
Thank you Crystal, a Great and Happy New Year to you!
Thank you for hosting and reviewing CRIMES AFTER DARK today.
Thank you so much for hosting “Crimes After Hours” on this wonderful blog. And thank you for the magnificent review, detailed and accurate, that also provides a careful analysis of the novel’s multidimensional shape.
I’m so happy to host you on my stop. I hope you come back often. Good luck with the tour! And Happy New 🎊
Thank you Gina for this wonderful experience, I’ll surely be back soon with my MultiDimensionCrime plots. I wish you and your readers a Happy New Year!