The novel Day After Day by Carlo Lucarelli is the followup to his previously successful novel Almost Blue. The story was published in Italy in the year 2000 with the title Un giorno dopo l’altro. Later on, the story was published in Great Britain in 2004 by the Harvill Press. Day After Day and Almost Blue share the same type of psychological tension, gracefully drawn characters and thrilling story that make these novels popular. Day After Day starts off at a somewhat slow pace, but becomes incredibly exciting and action packed as you progress throughout the story. Lucarelli does an incredible job of keeping the reader on their toes and always craving more.
Summarizing the plot; the story starts off with a sort of pseudo mystery of its own. A car-bomb explosion occurs with no explanation. A critically injured man crawling from a car, spewing blood from his mouth, is accompanied by a man named Brigadiere Carrone. The injured man manages to inform Brigadiere Carrone that his death was caused by a man named “Pit Bull.” For the moment, this piece of information is not important,
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At first, I believed this to be a very rare or underutilized technique. But, through research I have come to realize that this multiple-point of view style of writing is very popular in the Italian crime fiction writing world. Without this technique utilized in the story, it would not have been nearly as entertaining to the reader. The multiple character developments from their point of view is an amazing technique to indulge upon and really allows the reader to connect with each character on a deeper level than a single point of view story can accomplish. This is one of the many reasons as to why I enjoyed Lucarelli 's style of writing and am excited to be able to read more in the