Over the last three decades, Italian Crime Fiction has demonstrated a trend toward a much higher level of realism and complexity.
Though beginning in the Italian language, this prolific, popular Movement has more.
The origins of the New Italian Epic, as it has been coined by some of its proponents, can be found in the widespread backlash against the Mafia-sponsored murders of Sicilian magistrates which culminated with the assassinations of Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992.
Over the last three decades, Italian Crime Fiction has demonstrated a trend toward a much higher level of realism and complexity