EVIL’S SONS
original title: I FIGLI DEL MALE
“THE ITALIAN STEPHEN KING” “TOP THRILLER” Nightmares for Damiano Valente, the Jackal, have no end. Commissioner De Vivo and Dr. Malangone involved him in a hunt for a killer who left a trail of death behind him. Men with their throats slit and a bloody note with a message. Just two words. He sees. But this time the Jackal is alone. His friend Flavio is swallowed by the darkness as he tries to help a patient in the psychiatric clinic where he works. To find out the truth, Damiano will have to return to Castellaccio, in 1950, in the deep south marked by the fascist regime. We will know the years of the young Mimi and his love for Teresa. The years of the little Tommaso and of the night in which he discovered the tormented body of a child on the bank of a river.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 360 pages
ANTONIO LANZETTA Antonio Lanzetta was born in Salerno and with IL BUIO DENTRO (”The darkness within”), his first thriller, published also in french by Bragelonne, he garnered both the public and the international critics’ praise. In the past, he wrote two fantasy books: WARRIOR and REVOLUTION, always publisheed by La Corte Editore.
A PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE THRILLER FOR FANS OF JOE R. LANSDALE
the sensational new page-turning thriller from the author of the darkness within
THE DARKNESS WITHIN original title: IL BUIO DENTRO
“THE ITALIAN STEPHEN KING” “TOP THRILLER” Damiano Valente is The Jackal, a writer whose greatest talent is to turn heinous crimes into very successful novels. Nevertheless, when the corpse of a girl is found hanging from the branches of an old willow, Damiano simply cannot turn that homicide into a great novel. That is because 31 years earlier, in 1985, when Damiano was just a kid, his close friend Claudia had been murdered in the same way. Antonio Lanzetta tells this story drawing on pure emotions, outlining his own land with the typical furious love of those who know it well, not censoring anything and without recurring to trite stereotypes.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 288 pages RIGHTS SOLD: FRANCE (Bragelonne)
ANTONIO LANZETTA Antonio Lanzetta was born in Salerno and with IL BUIO DENTRO (”The darkness within”), his first thriller, published also in french by Bragelonne, he garnered both the public and the international critics’ praise. In the past, he wrote two fantasy books: WARRIOR and REVOLUTION, always published by La Corte Editore.
“FROM THE FIRST PAGES, ANTONIO LANZETTA REVEALS HIS TALENT. STAGING, STRENGHT OF IMAGES, ECONOMY OF STYLE, PERCUSSIVE DIALOGUES: A MASTERPIECE.”
LILAS SEEWALD - THE FRENCH PUBLISHER
the gripping thriller by the author acclaimed by the sunday times as top italian thriller
THE CITY OF MYSTERY original title: LA CITTÀ DELLE STREGHE
A GREAT SUCCESS BOTH FOR READERS AND CRITICS, BY THE AUTHOR ACCLAIMED IN THE MOST IMPORTANT ITALIAN TV At the beginning of the 1700s, Vittorio Amedeo II’s policy leads to a war against France. Laura Chevalier, running away from Nice, comes in Turin and finds out that there are things that can not be said except under the protection of Saints, because the Crocicchio Man is always hunting for souls and may be listening. Buffling figures run around the streets in the night, and mutilated corpses are found the following morning. Gustìn knows it well: becoming one of the Duke's spies, he is the right man to hunt for bandits, witches, and serial killers. Their lives will touch while the city is preparing to support the final siege.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 400 pages
LUCA BUGGIO Luca Buggio was born in Turin, where he lives and works. Graduated in Engineering, he is also a writer, theater director and actor. He published his first book in 2009. The city of mistery is the first book for La Corte Editore; it takes us in the 1700’s in Turin, with an atmosphere going beyond the Gothic and the thriller, making the city live in all its magic. The city of the siege is the second book of the trilogy.
AN EXTRAORDINARY NOVEL BETWEEN CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON AND KEN FOLLETT
TURIN, 1704. THE CITY IS A MELTING POT OF BANDITS, WITCHES AND SERIAL KILLERS. AN HISTORICAL THRILLER THAT YOU CAN’T STOP READING.
THE CITY OF THE SIEGE original title: LA CITTÀ DELL’ASSEDIO
A GREAT SUCCESS BOTH FOR READERS AND CRITICS, BY THE AUTHOR ACCLAIMED IN THE MOST IMPORTANT ITALIAN TV Summer 1706: the Duchy of Savoy lives the most dramatic season of the war against the France of the Sun King. All the strongholds have fallen, Turin resists in the grip of a bloody siege, while a horribly mutilated corpse, in the shadow of the Consolata Sanctuary could make the inhabitants of God's protection doubt. Gustìn is a trusted spy of the Duke and he will have to use the rationality of which he is proud to deny the superstitions and find a culprit in the flesh. Investigating among the darkest corners of Turin, Gustìn approaches secrets that go beyond his imagination. Laura makes her living by making soaps in Borgo Dora. She knows part of these secrets, yet she can not remember them. Aware of the mysteries hidden behind the houses and alleys of the city, Laura tries to survive the French siege. Both will come to touch the deepest and most mysterious heart of Turin, populated by terrifying, cruel, merciful creatures. And they will discover that, perhaps, the mysteries that hides the city are even bigger than they thought. After “The city of mistery”, this is the second chapter of a trilogy, a new journey through the Turin of the 18th century, among intrigues and mystery.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 400 pages
LUCA BUGGIO Luca Buggio was born in Turin, where he lives and works. Graduated in Engineering, he is also a writer, theater director and actor. He published his first book in 2009. The city of the siege is the his second book published by La Corte Editore
THE EXTRAORDINARY NEXT CHAPTER OF THE CITY OF MISTERY
TURIN, 1706. THE CITY IS UNDER FRENCH SIEGE. NEW MISTERIOUS DEATHS UPSET THE INHABITANTS. WHO IS THE GUILTY? IT’S A MAN? A DEVIL?
THE HOUSE OF SUSPENDING HEARTS original title: LA CASA DEI CUORI SOSPESI
“UNFORGETTABLE” “PAGE-TURNING” Romina sells books, even if her family would prefer she selling sandwiches. With her friend Stella, blonde and thin as she is brunette and buxom, she runs the bookshop It's not a Pizza, an unstable adventure, and together the two girls also share an apartment on the Moncalieri hill. Romina dreams of a solid and reliable boyfriend, and instead for years she has been dragging a relationship with Matteo, a poignant and vain poet, without enthusiasm. The appearance of a beautiful veterinarian with green eyes, seems to push her towards a turn. But just as she is about to leave him, Matteo offers her a cohabitation. What to do? It is the beginning of a choral story in which the stories of many characters, humans and animals intertwine. Everyone, human and animal, are looking for love. Because everyone in this world just wants to be loved. LA CORTE EDITORE - 240 pages
CLARA CAROLI Clara Caroli is a Journalist and life coach. She lives in Moncalieri, in the nearest of Turin, with her two daughters and three cats. She worked for the newspaper “La Repubblica” for many years. This is her firts novel.
AN EXTRAORDINARY COMEDY FOR FANS OF “THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG”
Sometimes love knocks on the door. We just have to remember to open it.
WHAT GIRLS ARE GOOD FOR THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF NELLIE BLY.
THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF NELLIE BLY. THE WOMAN WHO CHANGED JOURNALISM FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS
REVOLUTIONARY, BRAVE, FEMINIST. THE FIRST INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST OF THE HISTORY. “What girls are good for" is a novel that tells the true story of Nellie Bly, the first investigative journalist in the world, the woman who helped revolutionize the female social condition. The story begins in 1885, when Elisabeth Cochrane, one morning, reading the Dispatch, remains struck by an article that deals with the role of women, seen only as perfect landlords and mothers of families. Elizabeth is furious and decides to write in turn to the newspaper that, surprisingly, will employ her as a journalist. Nellie Bly will be the name with which she will begin to sign her articles becoming a real feminist icon, which fights against the industry dominated by men, bringing back stories that nobody else wants to tell. She will even pretend to be crazy to enter the asylum of Blackwell's Island and be able to tell from inside the horrors of a nursing home.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 560 pages ENGLISH VERSION AVAILABLE
DAVID BLIXT Author and actor, David Blixt's work is consistently described as "intricate," "taut," and "breathtaking." Living in Chicago with his wife and two children, David describes himself as "actor, author, father, husband. In reverse order."
A STORY AS STRONG AS IT IS FASCINATING, A NOVEL BASED ON A TRUE STORY.
REVOLUTIONARY, BRAVE, FEMINIST. THE FIRST FEMALE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST IN HISTORY.
THE GIRL ASKING FOR REVENGE original title: LA RAGAZZA CHE CHIEDEVA VENDETTA
“PORAZZI WRITES ANOTHER SENSATIONAL PLOT” A famous cosmetic surgeon is found dead in Udine, along with two of his assistants. It seems to be an ordinary case of murder-suicide, but the investigators discover a disturbing track: a well-known criminal may have undergone plastic facial surgery and have assumed a new identity. A few days later, a series of heinous murders begins. Three men are murdered, a short time away, in similar ways; three men linked by a tragic event that happened in the past. Inspector Raul Cavani deals with the investigation.He soon suspects a connection between these murders and that of the surgeon, and asks the advice of his former colleague Alex Nero. Who killed the three men to do his revenge? A psychopathic killer is on the loose, and could have the face of anyone. Even of the apparently most unsuspected person.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 320 pages
PIERLUIGI PORAZZI Pierluigi Porazzi is a lawyer and a writer. He is one of the most important voices of Italian detective story. He has already published several bestsellers with Marsilio Editore and he has won several literary prizes.
A TWISTING CRIME STORY FROM THE NEW ITALIAN SIMENON
IT COULD BE ANYONE, YOU DO NOT KNOW WHEN IT WILL HIT, YOU CAN NOT TRUST ANYONE.
I’M FREE
original title: IO SONO LIBERO
THE NEW BOOK OF A GREAT AUTHOR ALREADY TRANSLATED IN DUTCH. Geronimo studies philosophy at the Normale in Pisa but he dreams of being a disc jockey. Free studies math and tries to vent his anger in boxing. Gigio attends engineering, he has a stifling mother and problems of sexual identity. Tiziano, called the Ghigna, was kicked out of home when he stopped attending high school. Black soul of the group, he gets by pushing coke, smoke and tablets. On a Saturday night they run into a police station and do the only thing they can do to hide the 15 tablets they have with them: they swallow them all. The euphoria for having got away with it soon gave the way to concern for having swallowed a huge dose of ecstasy. The buzz comes with violence and the guys do not just lose the inhibitions, but the concrete perception of reality too. Crime and blood burst into the life of the characters, who will have to face a problem bigger than themselves and to rethink their existential behavior in a profound way. Among misunderstandings, improbable solutions and paranoia, the four boys will live the craziest night of theirs life, trying to devise a way to get out of trouble. But their plan will have only one contraindication: if it fails, they will not make it out of there alive.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 320 pages
FRANCESCO BARBI Francesco Barbi born in 1975 in Pisa, where he still lives, he has a degree in Physical Sciences and teaches mathematics and physics in high school. With Baldini Castoldi and Dalai Editore he has already published two fantasy novels, both translated into Dutch.
FOR FANS OF TRAINSPOTTING AND THE HANGOVER. A BOOK THAT WILL YOU REALLY HAVE FUN.
A NIGHT WHERE EVERYTHING HAPPENS. ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING, CYNICAL NOVELS OF RECENT TIMES.
DIRTY RAIN
original title: PIOGGIA SPORCA
A NOIR STORY FROM ONE OF THE BEST ITALIAN NEW GENERATION AUTHOR. Vittorio is a police inspector harassed by violent and unscrupulous creditors; Marco is a young man returning from Germany, where he had escaped to change his life after having step on the toes of big men of his neighborhood’s; and Rolando, known as Rollo, is a perverse drugs squad policeman who uses the badge to perform the worst abuses to the detriment of small criminality. Their stories, disconnected at firs glance, will end up tragically colluding, when in the city arrives a large load of drugs that tempts many people. Set in Italy, but in a nameless city that represents all the suburbs of our large, chaotic metropolises; Lorenzo Scano tells an intense, raw, honest story; where the protagonists will do everything to find a solution to their intricate lives that seem to have no way out.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 340 pages
LORENZO SCANO Lorenzo Scano was born in Cagliari where he lives. Despite his young age, he has already won several literary prizes; this is his second publishing experience.
DOG EATS DOG. NO TIME FOR LOOSERS.
THREE LIVES IN HELL. THREE DARK ANTIHEROES. A GRIPPING PAGE-TURNING NEW NOVEL
WHAT REMAINS OF SIN original title: QUEL CHE RESTA DEL PECCATO
“A TWISTING THRILLER” 50e50 Thriller
“CHILLING AND UNFORGETTABLE” Andrea G. Pinketts
“RAW, VIOLENT, INTENSE” Thrillernord.it
Kurt is a former policeman who does not know how to behave: he drinks too much, acts against the rules and reacts without thinking. In Bolzano, in the woods outside the city, a man and a woman are found dead. They have been brutally murdered, and Kurt is assigned as an investigator to the Police Squad. Together with the beautiful and shameless Vanessa, it will be up to him to get on the trail of the killer, who is nicknamed Schäferhund, the German Shepherd. But when Kurt wakes up in a bathtub with a surgical back wound, an unimaginable horror begins. Meanwhile, Bolzano is overwhelmed by a war between motorcycle gangs: in the middle of this apocalypse on the asphalt, Kurt, between nightmares and investigations, will have to face his past. Before the past destroys him.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 272 pages
MATTHIAS GRAZIANI Matthias Graziani is a journalist and teaches creative writing in schools. After his literary debut with “La stirpe del vento", a fantasy trilogy published by Armenia, “Sottopelle" is a thriller with marked and compelling narrative tones published by La Corte Editore.
A PULP STORY THAT YOU WILL CAN NOT STOP READING FROM THE SAME AUTHOR
A CRUEL AND COMPELLING STORY THROUGH THE DARK SIDE OF BOLZANO
BEYOND original title: OLTRE
THE EXTRAORDINARY NARRATIVE DEBUT OF AN AUTHOR WHO HAS PUBLISHED MORE THAN 35 BOOKS, TRANSLATED IN SEVERAL COUNTRIES. And if death were not the last chapter? Vaol is awake, but still believes that it is a dream. She is in her city, but she does not recognize it. Palaces, shops, parks: some are where they must be, others are not, there are no more. How is it possible? It will be him, the most beautiful boy she has ever seen, to explain everything: Vaol is dead. At nineteen, and now she ended up in a sort of limbo. It is the beginning of an adventure of a young girl who, little by little, is involved in a fight against The First, the Oligarchs who enslave the newcomers. A fight led by his father: Vaol finds him after years and now he is the head of the Resistance. And so, during the day Vaol fights her battle to overthrow the dictatorship; while at night she gradually falls in love with Hans every hour, every minute, every second longer. A love that she does not know will end up destroying her.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 272 pages
GIORGIA COZZA Giorgia Cozza is a journalist and a writer, author of lot of manuals on neonatality, as well as several books for children. He has more than 35 publications in her career, translated in many countries. Oltre is her first young adult novel.
THE SENSATIONAL NEW YOUNG ADULT STORY SET IN THE LIMBO
DEATH IS NOT THE LAST CHAPTER. STILL A PIECE OF LIFE. A NEW POSSIBILITY TO LOVE. A DICTATORSHIP TO BE DEFEATED. IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM.
IT’S NEVER TOO LATE original title: NON Ăˆ MAI TROPPO TARDI
CAN LOVE REALLY WIN EVERY BATTLE? Emma has just returned to Free Union in Virginia for her best friend's wedding. She has been missing from home for eight years and discovers that her father has a new partner, Derek's mother, an extrovert but also very surly boy. Little by little, Emma and Derek are overwhelmed by a myriad of feelings that gradually turn into attraction until a relationship begins. Emma is tormented by the emotional instability of Derek, she can not understand why they feel so close and far away at the same time, and just when everything seems going well, a trivial incident leads Derek to remove the girl definitively. What Emma does not know is that Derek hides a secret.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 240 pages
VALENTINA NASELLI Valentina Naselli lives near Milan, but she has always traveled the world. this is her literary debut and she wanted to write this novel because, knowing very well the topic, she wanted to tell it from the right side: that one of unconditional love
FOR JOHN GREEN AND JO JO MOYES FANS
PERFECT LOVE
original title: CON TE TUTTO Ăˆ PERFETTO
THOSE LOVES THAT DO NOT END. NEVER. Vittoria and Daniel have always been friends. They live in the same city, just a few steps from the park where, under the big oak tree, they often spend happy moments. Right there, under the oak that, after having engraved their initials, they promise themselves eternal friendship But who says that a great friendship can not become love? They grow up, attend the same school, the same companies and continue to hide each other the feeling that, between fears and insecurities, grows more and more into their hearts. Both are afraid that their love will put an end to their eternal friendship; but after a long time Daniel finally confessed his feelings to Vittoria. But life puts you to the test just when it should not: and so Daniel and Vittoria are forced to separate for 10 years in which they have no contact. The past seems far away, until one autumn day, suddenly, comes knocking on their door.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 320 pages
VALENTINA CANALE PAROLA Valentina Canale Parola was born in Sora in 1995 and currently studies law. she is in love with the idea of love and in her spare time she writes stories with pink hues that make the heart beat. very young, this is her second romance.
A PERFECT NOVEL FOR A TEEN AUDIENCE. FOR ANNA TODD FANS
TWIZEL “TWIZEL IS COMPELLING LIKE A THRILLER AND HAS THE COMPLEXITY OF A URBAN FANTASY WORLD.� Twizel, New Zealand. Everyone knows each other since the birth. For Carly Brooks, sixteen years old, the village represents the hell where she is forced to live, victim of bullying by her companions. Yet she has a secret: her best friend was Lauren Brydon, a very popular girl dead mysteriously two years earlier in an accident on Lake Pukaki. Since then Carly plans to solve the mystery, but to do so she must involve Lauren's brother, Bentley and Oliver Riley, who has always been her executioner. The search for truth brings the three guys on the shore of the lake, where everything started, where they discover that behind that crystal clear waters there is a hidden dimension, another Twizel. They will also find that their life is not what they remember: their memory has actually been blown by someone else and there are more secrets than anyone could ever have imagined. In this new dimension, the three guys will have to find ways to recover their memories, rework their true relationship and, above all, survive to save their missing friends and try to return to the real Twizel.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 272 pages
FRANCESCA CALDIANI
LA CORTE EDITORE - 240 pages
Francesca Caldiani is a lawyer and a writer in science fiction; she lives in Bergamo (Mi). She has became known to the public with a novel for kids. Twizel is the first saga with La Corte Editore.
A SMART, COMPELLING AND IRRESISTIBLE SAGA SET IN NEW ZEALAND. PERFECT FOR FANS OF DIVERGENT AND 13 REASONS WHY
VISION TO FIND WHAT SHE HAS LOST, SHE MUST GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING. Reika lives in a perfect world, where the inhabitants are the result of careful genetic selection. The races are divided into ghettos and no one is allowed to cross the borders of Meridian City. But something will happen that will awaken in her an unknown power. Arrested and isolated, she will flee and discover a different world, perpetually on the line between life and death. Under the siege by a terrible threat, Reika will learn about the great deception wich has kept his perfect society under control and she will be ready to face every danger with the help of Ares and other Survivors. She will know pain, anger, but also love and truth. She will sacrifice herself, because she is the key to saving the two worlds. Because she has the eye that sees everything.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 380 pages
ALESSIA COPPOLA Alessia Coppola lives in Puglia and is a blogger and illustrator as well as a well-known writer. She is a polyhedric artist: in 2014 she opened the literary blog “Anima d’Inchiostro" and in 2016 the same Youtube channel. She has already published many novels. With La Corte Editore has already published Wolfheart.
TWO WORLDS DIVIDED BY A DECEPTION. TWO BEINGS DESTINED TO SAVE OR DESTROY THEM FOREVER. FROM THE SAME AUTHOR
A DYSTOPIAN NOVEL THAT YOU CAN NOT STOP READING. A STRUGGLE TO GET THE TRUTH.
ANJUR ACADEMY IF ONE TELLS YOU ARE NOT ENOUGHT, DO NOT BELIEVE IT! A FEMALE NOVEL IN THE WAKE OF HARRY POTTER The Anjur Academy is the largest and most ancient State Institution and has come to make selections in the small country where Shani lives. Initially excluded, Shani will succeed in winning his place after discovering she has The Gift and she is able to control the Archean. But at the Academy there are a lot of dangers: staying there will be not so easy, especially for her who has been tagged with number 31. The girl will be involved in a plot that is likely to lead to civil war. Will Shani discover what secrets are hiding in the Academy and to understand who is conspiring in the shadows, thus redeeming her name?
LA CORTE EDITORE - 400 pages
FEDERICA PETRONI
LA CORTE EDITORE - 400 pages
Federica Petroni lives in Milan, holds a degree in Legal Sciences and is currently working in a Web Marketing company. She loves playing anything that is not gambling (video games, board games and cards ...), she is passionate about technology and fantasy.
MAGIC AND STRUGGLES AT THE CENTER OF AN EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE
BRYAN “HIS NAME IS FEDERICO GHIRARDI, THE NEW REVELATION OF ITALIAN FANTASY.” Suspected of having horribly killed the daughter of a wealthy merchant, Elias the alchemist is tortured without mercy and condemned to the stake. Six hundred years later, his spirit rises and possesses the inhabitants of Quietwood, a mountain village. Bryan, a shy fourteen-year-old on holiday at his grandparents’ house, witnesses the bloody resurrection and the monstrous metamorphosis of the local elders. Terrified and helpless, on the edge of an authentic infernal abyss, the boy is saved by an unlikely ally: Morpheus, a creature born of the union of a demon and a human. Thanks to the half-demon, Bryan will discover how to use his body’s energy to protect himself and his loved ones. Morpheus will also reveal to him the existence of the Bay, a supernatural organization that, engaged in an endless struggle with the Rebel Community led by the mysterious Insorta, fights to secure the Earth the necessary protection from the Undergrounds, lugubrious and terrifying beings confined by men under the surface of the planet. Among disturbing apparitions, psychic attacks, and landscapes invisible to ordinary mortal eyes, Bryan will discover at his own expenses how thin the line between good and evil can be.
#1 IN THE LAND OF THE HALF-DEMONS #2 THE TALISMAN OF EVIL #3 THE CURSE OF MORPHEUS #4 THE ALMIGHTY #5 THE CAOS CREATOR
FEDERICO GHIRARDI Federico Ghirardi lives in Val di Susa. With the saga of Bryan, he became one of the most talented and visionary Italian fantasy authors, selling over 25,000 copies. He has won several literary prizes and today he works as editor and translator.
THE EPIC END OF THE BRYAN SAGA HAS FINALLY ARRIVED
A FANTASY SAGA THAT SOLD OVER 25.000 COPIES!
DAREK THE NEW EXTRAORDINARY ITALIAN FANTASY COMIC BOOK DARKNESS LED US HERE, UNTIL THE DAY WHEN A WEAK LIGHT REVEALED ONCE AGAIN WHO WE REALLY ARE... NOW, IT IS THE DARKNESS THAT WILL HAVE TO TREMBLE. PAVESIO COMICS - 48 pages - 17x24cm
PAVESIO COMICS, A TWENTY-YEAR COMICS PUBLISHING HOUSE, NOW BELONGS TO LA CORTE EDITORE MASSIMO PINI
ANDREA MODUGNO
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“...SENZA
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DAREK!!! SiR DEVLiN!... CON ME!
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DA OGGi... È L’OSCURiTÀ CHE DOVRÀ TREMARE.”
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DORMi! Ci FARAi PiCCHiARE COME L’ALTRA NOTTE… È SOLO iL VENTO…
LO HAi SENTiTO ADESSO?!
ECCOLO! Di NUOVO!
DRALiS, REGNO Di RE YONAKiR. MOLTO TEMPO FA...
ViENE DA Li! DOVE C’È BUiO!
LA VUOi SMETTERE?! NON C’È NiENTE LÀ!
LA SMETTO SE Mi ACCOMPAGNi A GUARDARE...
E VA BENE! PERÒ POi TORNiAMO A LETTO, STAi ZiTTO E DORMi!
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VOGL O SOLO CONTROLLARE CHE NON C’È NiENTE.
RULES OF THE GAME original title: REGOLE DEL GIOCO
A HOUSE FROM WHICH YOU CAN NOT GET OUT. FIVE STRANGERS. ONLY ONE WILL SURVIVE. Five strangers wake up in a house from which they can not get out. A voice in the house tells them they have five hours. Five hours in which they must play. The rules are very simple: only one can survive, and if there will be more than one at the end of time, everyone will die. But what they do not know yet it’s that they all have one thing in common and that among them there is a liar, a person who knows a lot more than he admits. Thus a race against time will start, which will push each of them beyond the limits of their own conscience. But who is behind this crazy game? And, above all, why does the voice continue to ask the same question? "What's the most horrible thing you've ever done?"
LA CORTE EDITORE - 232 pages
MARIO DE MARTINO Mario De Martino lives in Naples, he graduated in Literature and, despite his young age he has already published several novel. “Regole del gioco” is his fifth novel.
FOR FANS OF SAW
THE DEVIL’S CHARM original title: IL FASCINO DEL DIAVOLO
THE DARKEST, MOST SENSATIONAL THRILLER YOU WILL READ THIS YEAR New York, a serial killer has announced that he will kill 666 priest, and a satanic cult is going to carry out a terror attack of inconceivable ferocity. In Los Angeles, another serial killer, the Vampire, aims at homeless. How can the two cases be linked together? How can the detectives Norton and Moose stop this spiral of violence?
LA CORTE EDITORE - 580 pages
J.P. MARSHALL J.P. Marshall is an Italian author who writes with a pseudonym. this is the second book published with the La Corte Editore, which confirms it among the great authors of contemporary thriller.
DETECTIVE MOOSE AND NORTON COME BACK! FROM THE SAME AUTHOR
JACK WHITECHAPEL LIVES ITS SCARY NIGHTMARE... London, 1888. A series of fierce murders paralyse the city by throwing the Whitechapel quarter in terror. Right there Damon Blake has just settled, moving from India to escape its stormy past. The crimes carry the name of Jack The Ripper, but in spite of that, Blake will be involved in the midst of a real nightmare, that between night visions and mysterious women, will lead the man to doubt about his own mental faculties till reach the fine line of madness. Break up the shadows that surround Whitechapel, save himself and light up the identity of the mysterious serial killer, will become the primary targets of Damon Blake. But he will first have to fight with the dark side of his soul.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 256 pages
SARA DI FURIA Sara Di Furia has already published several short stories and novels receiving certificates and awards in numerous national competitions. She is a teacher in secondary school.
AN UNPREDICTABLE TWISTING THRILLER. A NEW KEY OF THE MOST FAMOUS COLD CASE IN THE WORLD
THE RED QUEEN original title: LA REGINA ROSSA
A SPELLBINDING TALE OF MYSTERIES AND SECRETS AND LOVE England, mid 1800s. An orphan girl is adopted by the noble family Klein, but the trace of a sixth finger and a mole in her face are considered labels of witchcraft, sealing the fate of the baby, always surrounded by suspicions. But after the death of one of the sisters, Christianne will discover that she is really able to see dead spirits and to communicate with them. Therefore her life will be completely turned upside-down, and among ghosts, secrets and disturbing mysteries, she will try to unveil the truth about her own destiny and the history of one of the most famous queens of England of all time: the Red Queen.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 200 pages
SARA DI FURIA Sara Di Furia has already published several short stories and novels receiving certificates and awards in numerous national competitions. She is a teacher in secondary school.
AN INTENSE AND DISTURBING STORY THAT MIXES JANE AUSTEN AND THE GOTHIC LITERATURE ATMOSPHERES
IT’S NOT TIME TO PLAY THE HEROES original title: NON È TEMPO DI FARE GLI EROI
A BEAUTIFUL HISTORICAL PICTURE, TO HELP US TO UNDERSTAND BETTER THE SITUATION IN LIBYA TODAY We are in the 30s, Libya is a Fascist Italy's territory and the lives of seven people are about to weave during a crucial week for the future of the colony: Omar al Mukhtar, leader of the rebels in Cyrenaica, was captured and he is to be executed precisely during the preparation days to welcome the triumphant visit of Mussolini. A relentless, compelling novel that takes us back in time and hook until the last page, extraordinarily painting Italy’s colonial period, with a perfect mix of passion and bitterness, which makes us relive a forgotten slice of history where we all lost the most precious thing: the freedom.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 240 pages
NICOLÒ PAPA Nicolò Papa was born in Rome and graduated with a thesis on the colonial law, published by Aracne. He undertook several travels in the Horn of Africa and his love for Eritrea led to his first novel “Caffè Impero”. He currently works in the field of international cooperation, and deals with projects funded by the European Union and World Bank
WHEN WE LOST FREEDOM
REVOLUTION TO SAVE THE HEART, SHE WILL LEARN THAT NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS Earth, 2233. In the last city left, humanity is split in half: on one side there are the Sired, relegated to the ghetto and abandoned to degradation, forced to work like slaves to maintain the Citizens, who live beyond the walls a life of unrestrained and hyper-technological luxury. It's up to Sue, a girl living in the ghetto, to start the revolution that will finally allow her to fight to truly decide the fate of her life. In this fast-paced adventure that will force her to risk her life and her beloved ones, Sue will be helped by a variegated group of allies, including Kain, a mysterious sentinel coming from the past and suddenly appeared to fight at her side. Sue will learn that in her world nothing is what it seems and that perhaps, with her choices, she may revolutionize the future of the entire planet Earth.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 272 pages
ANTONIO LANZETTA Antonio Lanzetta was born in Salerno and with IL BUIO DENTRO (”The darkness within”), his first thriller, published also in french by Bragelonne, he garnered both the public and the international critics’ praise. In the past, he wrote two fantasy books: WARRIOR and REVOLUTION, always published by La Corte Editore.
SUPER ADRENALYNIC DISTOPIC NOVEL
WARRIOR WHEN YOU LOST EVERYTHING, YOU HAVE THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE Darius lost everything. His land, Andurian, fell under the domination of Caio VII’s Empire, his mother was burned at the stake for having led the resistance, and his wife and his son were victims of a terrible accident. Thus, in a postmodern world subjugated by a bloody regime that combines advanced technologies and slavery, and where humans have evolved into new races, Darius, chained up, will be forced to fight for pure entertainment in Xendria arenas. But when everything seems hopeless and the destiny of humanity appears to be set in stone, Darius will find the strength to rise up and, along with unexpected allies, will try to find a way to accomplish what looks like an impossible task: to take revenge on Caius VII and free the world from his tyranny.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 240 pages
ANTONIO LANZETTA Antonio Lanzetta was born in Salerno and with IL BUIO DENTRO (”The darkness within”), his first thriller, published also in french by Bragelonne, he garnered both the public and the international critics’ praise. In the past, he wrote two fantasy books: WARRIOR and REVOLUTION, always published by La Corte Editore.
AS GRIPPING AS A VIDEOGAME
WORLD IN FLAMES original title: MONDO IN FIAMME
A NEW GREAT EPIC SERIES BETWEEN GAME OF THRONES AND THE LORD OF RINGS WAR IS AGAIN AT THE GATES, ANCIENT CREATURES ARE AWAKENING, AND THE WORLD IS ABOUT TO BE LITERALLY SET IN FLAMES. The world still carries the deep scars of a ruinous war. The following peace was founded on the contempt of greedy kings and treacherous palace officials. After twenty years, however, a new era is coming. Everyone realizes it. But in the vast continent only a little girl with skin covered with tattoos knows what's really going to happen, and she knows it because she unleashed it. Ancient creatures, long-dormant and conflicting powers are going to wake up and reclaim the world that had forgotten them. Winter has just ended, and people are wondering what to expect from the rising spring, but the future seems to have in store nothing but ashes.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 320 pages
EDOARDO STOPPACCIARO Edoardo Stoppacciaro is one of the most popular and appreciated voice actors in Italy. Among his several works as a voice actor, in fact, we can remember Game of Thrones, The Hobbit, The Borgias, Homeland, How to Get Away with Murder, Hunger, Ratatouille, Pacific Rim, Despicable Me, Everest and Alice in Wonderland.
THE SECOND BOOK OF THE SAGA WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM NOVEMBER 2018
THE SHADOW HUNTER
original title: IL CACCIATORE DI OMBRE
IF YOU WANT TO SURVIVE, NEVER TURN OFF THE LIGHTS Valderic Chaine is a shad'real. All his life he has been trained to hunt down and kill the shades: invisible creatures living in the darkness, parasites of humans consuming their energies until they kill them. He does it using lights, reflective crystals and his bizarre power to "hear the shadows", a talent he had since birth, a gift and a curse at the same time. Thus when he finds out that a Well – a nest of shades from which proliferation is unleashed, at every eclipse, a veritable wave of pestilence – is going to arise, he knows that to avoid an authentic extermination his hours are numbered. In addition to the support of Edmon and Larius, two other hunters, he can only count on the unexpected help of Norbert, a boy escaped from slavery, and Calysse, the young Regent of Anthris. But no one else. Because being a shad'real means, very often, having to leave behind a trail of dead bodies, attracting upon yourself another deadly enemy: the man...
LA CORTE EDITORE - 360 pages
ELEONORA ROSSETTI Eleonora Rossetti was born in Sondrio, where she lives. She has studied at the Accademia di Regia e Sceneggiatura, and she is a software programmer. With The shadow hunter and Chimera she has became one of the most original authors of italian fantasy panorama.
A COMPELLING, ADRENALINIC DARK FANTASY
MILLENNIALS HERE THEY ARE: THE ITALIAN X-MEN! THE SUPER-HEROES OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM! What would they do eleven boys in Italy, if they found out to have supernatural powers? Would they really wear some suits trying to save the world? Not the Millennials. They are teenagers without parents and without special responsibilities: they were created by a genetic engineering program. But fate always gives the bill, and that for Millennials will be particularly expensive. They will have to break free from the wires of a plot that has been woven around them and through chases through time in search of the truth, paradoxes and time loops that could threaten their existence, the Millennials will have to learn to work together and understand the meaning of having friends you can count on and a home to return to.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 300 pages
FABIO CICOLANI Fabio Cicolani lives in Bologna where he teaches creative writing at primary school and junior high school. Thanks to the saga “Le Magie di Omnia" he has established himself as one of the most popular writers of fantasy in Italy by the readers of all ages. For children, however, he has already published “Il bambino dei draghi" and the "Monsters' Park" series.
THE PERFECT ADVENTURE FOR READERS FROM 11 YEARS UPWARDS FROM THE SAME AUTHOR
CHIMERA A GREAT BREATHTAKING SCI-FI THRILLER Jonathan Sniper has always been in search of the scoop of the century, but he never imagined to be in the middle of it. Everything rushes one night when he finds himself in the middle of the street with a gun in his pocket and his dirty clothes of blood not his own. He does not know how he got there: the last thing he remembers is that he was helping a stranger to escape some criminals. That man, in his last moments of life, has inoculated something inside him. From that moment on, only the dark. Now he is hunted, not only by the police, but also by mysterious individuals who are trying to capture him with every means because they want what has been entrusted to him without consensus. Something that now whispers in his head, sometimes advising him, sometimes hindering him, even taking the command of his body: an extraneous, artificial conscience claiming his presence, repeating "I am Jonathan.� Between memory blanks, chases, deceits, and unhoped allies, Jonathan must understand what hides within himself before even revealing the mysteries that surround him. He will find out at his own expense that if one artificial intelligence does not know the emotions, on the other hand, human nature, under the patina of ethics and morality, is the most brutal thing that exists in the world.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 360 pages
ELEONORA ROSSETTI Eleonora Rossetti was born in Sondrio, where she lives. She has studied at the Accademia di Regia e Sceneggiatura, and she is a software programmer. With The shadow hunter and Chimera she has became one of the most original authors of italian fantasy panorama.
FOR THOSE WHO LOVED MINORITY REPORT AND TOTAL RECALL
THE SEVENTH DAY A STRUGGLE BETWEEN ANGELS AND DEMONS. WILL ALEXANDER AVOID THE APOCALYPSE? Alexander is sixteen year old and has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for months, since he began to see the first "abominations" as he calls them. Even his parents abandoned him, and only his friend Ella continues to visit him occasionally. Alexander always avoids the mirrors. He is convinced that they reflect a strange androgynous figure with long blond hair and two pairs of white wings. Things change when he is approached by two strange doctors with scarlet irises: they want to know where the "Door" is and what is the secret of the city of Acalia. Alexander can only save himself with the help of Helis, a girl that came out of nowhere, and Ella, accidentally involved in escaping from the psychiatric hospital. Alexander will soon discover that he is the last Seer on Earth and he is in danger. In fact, Ezechiel, the archangel who protects Seers and Prophets, has disappeared. Since then all his "sons" are visible to the Demons, craving to know the future. But Angels can not afford this, so they are "fading" all the special people. By killing them. Including Alexander. Will the boy, with the help of his new friends, save himself and avoid the Apocalypse?
LA CORTE EDITORE - 320 pages
LUCA CENTI Luca Centi is born in L’Aquila in 1985. He is a great fan of historial and fantastic literature, and he has already published many books. Some of than has been also translated in chinese.
FOR THE PERCY JACKSON’S FANS!
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUN original title: L’ALTRO LATO DEL SOLE
A DEVASTATINGLY BEAUTIFUL NOVEL ON THE DIFFICULTY OF GROWING UP. Ginevra is eighteen years old and her life is suspended between the buzz in the clubs and the abandon on the walls of the suburbs of Rome. She lives from day to day, trying to survive the last year of high school and a father who is victim of his own vices. She walks alone on the edge of the abyss of easy promises, but her fragile balance is a whisker from being completely overturned. Alexis, instead, is the exact opposite. He wears white, seems immune to any physical contact, and defies any attempts of socialization. He also lives in his own world, which seems far from Ginevra’s one. But their meeting will be the key that will show both a way out of the cage they created. The Other Side Of The Sun is a strong, visceral novel that throw you directly in the protagonist’s deepest emotions and innermost thoughts, revealing how the light and carefree adolescence that we all imagine has actually a hidden and secret side, where there is the risk of getting completely lost.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 232 pages
FRANCESCA PETRONI Francesca Petroni lives in Rome. She graduated in Law and she has a master's degree in Marketing Management and currently works in a company that deals with games. She previously practiced martial arts at a competitive level and now she is also a mother of two wonderful children: Luna and Ludovico.
HARD, INTENSE, DIRECT. WRITTEN IN SECOND PERSON FROM THE SAME AUTHOR
I WANNA BE A WEDDING PLANNER original title: VOGLIO FARE LA WEDDING PLANNER
“THE REVELATION NOVEL IN THE WEDDING’S WORLD” STYLE.IT
“...A PERFECT NOVEL FOR ROMANTIC SOULS” I Want to be a Wedding Planner focus on the misadventures of Alice Stella, an italian girls that doesn’t want to be a wedding planner, but she ended up to become it. It’s a funny and lighthearted read, focuses on the fabulous world of weddings between elegant wedding dresses and tight deadlines, “etiquette” and romanticism.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 272 pages An italian top ten eBooks bestseller!
SERENA OBERT Serena Obert lives in Turin and with her partner Stefania Poletti she is one of most important italian wedding planner.
STEFANIA POLETTI
STEFANIA NICCOLINI
FOR THE SOPHIE KINSELLA AND LINDSEY KELK LOVERS!
SWEET LOVE THE SECRETS INGREDIENTS FOR A NOVEL WITH AN IRRESISTIBLE TASTE. Wendy, for better or for worse, believes to have framed her life: she has a stable job, a new house and a former boyfriend who does not want her anymore. Until one day, suddenly, her life is turned upside down, giving her the courage to follow a dream and to open a Cake Shop of her own. Since that moment her life begins to take an unexpected turn, and between cakes, cupcakes, macaroons and sweets of all kinds, she will discover that in love, like in the kitchen, the quality of the ingredients is one of the biggest secrets that you can learn. A book full of scents, flavours, smiles, emotions, and plot twists that will keep the readers glued to the last page and that will catapult us into a world of irresistible sweetness.
LA CORTE EDITORE - 200 pages
ELENA BOSCA Elena Bosca is one of most important italian cake designer and she has her Cake Shop in Turin. She was also the star of the television show "The Battle of cakes" and she teaches Cake Design in prestigious academies.
LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, TWISTS AND DREAMS.