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Noir

Le notti senza sonno

(Sleepless Nights)

Ugo Guanda Editore, April 2022, pp.592

English sample available

80,000 copis sold

In a restless Milan, already frightened by the early blows of the pandemic, two heinous crimes are being investigated by two very different investigators who, nevertheless complement each other perfectly: Chief Inspector Mandelli, a down-to-earth, not very sociable fifty-year-old devoted to his work and family, and the charming Inspector Antonio Casalengo, also fifty, an unrepentant bachelor and incorruptible police officer.

February 2020: while the media broadcast the first news items about a mysterious virus from China, the Violent Crime Forensics Unit (VCFU) of the Milan’s police headquarters is investigating a monstrous serial killer who strikes the city’s women and signs every crime with a bunch of daisies. The enquiries are conducted by Chief Inspector Mandelli and Inspector Casalegni, as well as the VCFU men and women, a miscellaneous cast of characters, each with his and her own very own traits. But soon Milan is shaken by another case: the murder of a well-known jeweller during a burglary. In a tight sequence of plot twists, the atmosphere of siege and the tragedy experienced by the city, the VCFU team risk their own lives and relationships to solve the case and prove to themselves and the world that it’s worth fighting to the death in order to still feel alive.

Ugo Guanda Editore, April 2022, pp.592

  • “In Gian Andrea Cerone’s debut crime novel, the investigation into a dangerous serial killer is intertwined with the lockdown”

    Luca Crovi, Il Giornale

  • “Gian Andrea Cerone makes his debut with a powerful crime novel that evokes Scerbanenco”  

    Severino Colombo, La Lettura - Corriere della Sera

  • “Italian crime writing has a new and highly-original voice that uses a fast-moving pace and biting humour to depict a Milan under siege.”

    Marco Vichi 

  • “This may be Cerone’s debut as a novelist, but not as a storyteller: his frenzied race against murder and virus is rich in action and tension, crimes and characters.”

    Ttl – La Stampa

  • “This novel […] has become a literary sensation. […] A powerful noir that brings to mind masters of the genre with skilful quotations, from Camilleri to Don Winslow [..] grips the reader until the final page amid constant changes of point of view and coups de scènes.” 

    Erica Manna, La Repubblica

  • “Gian Andrea Cerone has passed his test (…) an adrenaline-filled debut.”

    “A team of characters you immediately befriend (a promising premise for new episodes).”

    Giordano Ferri, Il Foglio

  • “This novel is first and foremost about abduction, that of the reader, who’s captured on page 1 and released on page 556. You try and break free – we couldn’t.”

    “A book destined to make the besteller list and a TV series”

    “(Cerone) is brilliant at setting the pace by linking short, fast-moving chapters, like cherries you gobble up one after the other.”

    Maurizio Crosetti, Robinson, La Repubblica

Gian Andrea Cerone

Gian Andrea Cerone, class 1964, lives in Milan. He has long-standing experience in the field of communications, public and institutional relations, as well as traditional, digital and TV publishing. Among other things, he was an external relations advisor at the Ministry for Economic Development and in charge of istitutional relations at EXPO 2015. In 2018, he founded the successful publishing platform Storielibere podcast. In 2021, Guanda published his fiction debut, Le notti senza sonno (Sleepless Nights, 2022), the first novel in a series that sees the investigative team in Milan’s violent crime task force in action, followed by Il trattamento del silenzio (The Silent Treatment, 2023), both finalists for the Scerbanenco prize.

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