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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    January 2004
  • Latest Book:
    March 2020
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Book List in Order: 13 titles



  • “Think The Sopranos meets Goodfellas -- without the Americanized gloss . . . [A] not-for-the-faint-hearted novel by an Italian master” (Reading Matters). In The Colombian Mule, the author called “the reigning king of Mediterranea...



  • “There isn’t a scintilla of innocence in this masterpiece of Italian noir . . . [Carlotto’s] version of hardboiled crime is criminal all the way.” -- The Globe and MailGiorgio Pellegrini is wanted in Italy for a series of crim...



  • The author known as an Italian James Ellroy delivers “a raw, extremely dark portrait of a crime and its aftermath” (The Washington Post).During a bungled robbery attempt, Raffaello Beggiato takes a young woman and her eight-year-old child hostage...



  • An extraordinary tale of life on the run from the author of the Alligator mysteries, the acclaimed crime writer with “a history as riveting as any novel” (Chicago Tribune).Massimo Carlotto’s odyssey began in 1976 when, as a member of a militant...




  • Poisonville is a noir thriller par excellence -- there's murder, moral ambiguity, and a protagonist less than heroic. In this #1 bestselling noir novel, however, the killer is not an individual but an entire system.

    The heavily industrialize...



  • PI Marco “the Alligator” Buratti returns in a thriller from the author whose “brand of crime writing is tougher than even the toughest American noir” (Josh Bazell, national bestselling author).Massimo Carlotto has been described as “the rei...



  • An explosive crime thriller from the author of The Goodbye Kiss, “the reigning king of Mediterranean noir” (Boston Phoenix).Giorgio Pellegrini, the hero of The Goodbye Kiss, has been living an “honest” life for eleven years. But that’s abou...



  • Massimo Carlotto has been called “the reigning king of Mediterranean noir” (Boston Phoenix) and “the best living Italian crime writer” (Il Manifesto). 

    In The Colombian Mule, Carlotto brings to riveting life the story of Arías Cueva...






  • PI Marco “the Alligator” Buratti returns in a “raucous, delicious ride” from the celebrated Italian crime writer and author of Bandit Love (Cedar Rapids Gazette).Padua, Italy. An unremarkable man, a husband and father, disappears without a tr...



  • This Alligator mystery, “a simple gangster revenge tale . . . gets more and more emotionally intense . . . Crime writing this good just has to be read” (NB Magazine).International secret police operations, drug traff...




  • In Carlotto's The Campagna Trail, Inspector Campagna uses an old friendship with notorious drug dealer Roby Pizzo in a Machiavellian attempt to keep the peace. But when an interfering new police chief demands Campagna bring down the Mafioso who heads...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Massimo Carlotto has published 13 books.

Massimo Carlotto does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Cocaine, was published in March 2020.

The first book by Massimo Carlotto, The Colombian Mule, was published in January 2004.

No. Massimo Carlotto does not write books in series.