Luca D'Andrea has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 2★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Beneath the Mountain.
Beneath the Mountain
Summary
In Luca D'Andrea's atmospheric and brilliant thriller, set in a small mountain community in the majestic Italian Dolomites, an outsider must uncover the truth about a triple murder that has gone unsolved for 30 years. New York City native Jeremiah Salinger is one half of a hot-shot documentary-making team. He and his partner, Mike, made a reality show about roadies that skyrocketed them to fame. But now Salinger's left that all behind, to move with his wife, Annelise, and young daughter, Clara, to the remote part of Italy where Annelise grew up - the Alto Adige. Nestled in the Dolomites, this breathtaking, rural region that was once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire remains more Austro than Italian. Locals speak a strange, ancient dialect - Ladino - and root for Germany (against Italy) in the world cup. Annelise's small town - Siebenhoch - is close-knit to say the least and does not take kindly to out-of-towners. When Salinger decides to make a documentary about the mountain rescue group, the mission goes horribly awry, leaving him the only survivor. He blames himself, and so - it seems - does everyone else in Siebenhoch. Spiraling into a deep depression, he begins having terrible, recurrent nightmares. Only his little girl, Clara, can put a smile on his face. But when he takes Clara to the Bletterbach Gorge - a canyon rich in fossil remains - he accidentally overhears a conversation that gives his life renewed focus. In 1985, three students were murdered there, their bodies savaged, limbs severed and strewn by a killer who was never found. Although Salinger knows this is a tightlipped community, one where he is definitely persona non grata, he becomes obsessed with solving this mystery and is convinced it is all that can keep him sane. And as Salinger unearths the long kept secrets of this small town one by one, the terrifying truth is eventually revealed about the horrifying crime that marked an entire village. Completely engrossing and deeply atmospheric, Beneath the Mountain is a thriller par excellence.
©2018 Luca D'Andrea (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers
Der Wanderer
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Die Leiche einer jungen Frau an einem unzugänglichen Bergsee. Ein Tarot-Zeichen, das vom Bösen kündet. Ein Wanderer, dem keiner entkommt. Mit Entsetzen blickt Sibylle auf das Foto ihrer toten Mutter. Es kam in einem Brief ohne Absender. Zwanzig Jahre ist es schon her, dass man die Leiche der "narrischen Erika", die ihr Geld mit Tarot-Orakeln verdiente, an einem abgelegenen Bergsee gefunden hat. In Kreuzwirt waren sich alle einig: Selbstmord. Aber das Foto erzählt eine andere, viel schrecklichere Geschichte. Was war damals wirklich geschehen? Zusammen mit dem Lokaljournalisten Tony macht sich Sibylle auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit. Dabei entwirren die beiden ein dunkles Geflecht aus Lügen und Verrat, Drogen, Okkultismus und Wahnsinn - und stellen mit Entsetzen fest, dass Erika nicht nur das erste von vielen Opfern war. Auch sie schweben in Lebensgefahr.
©2019 Penguin Verlag, München. Übersetzung von Susanne van Volxem und Olaf Matthias Roth (P)2019 Der Hörverlag
Der Wanderer
Summary
Die Leiche einer jungen Frau an einem unzugänglichen Bergsee. Ein Tarot-Zeichen, das vom Bösen kündet. Ein Wanderer, dem keiner entkommt. Mit Entsetzen blickt Sibylle auf das Foto ihrer toten Mutter. Es kam in einem Brief ohne Absender. Zwanzig Jahre ist es schon her, dass man die Leiche der "narrischen Erika", die ihr Geld mit Tarot-Orakeln verdiente, an einem abgelegenen Bergsee gefunden hat. In Kreuzwirt waren sich alle einig: Selbstmord. Aber das Foto erzählt eine andere, viel schrecklichere Geschichte. Was war damals wirklich geschehen? Zusammen mit dem Lokaljournalisten Tony macht sich Sibylle auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit. Dabei entwirren die beiden ein dunkles Geflecht aus Lügen und Verrat, Drogen, Okkultismus und Wahnsinn - und stellen mit Entsetzen fest, dass Erika nicht nur das erste von vielen Opfern war. Auch sie schweben in Lebensgefahr.
©2019 Penguin Verlag, München. Übersetzung von Susanne Van Volxem und Olaf Matthias Roth (P)2019 Der Hörverlag
Sanctuary
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In his haunting follow-up to the acclaimed Beneath the Mountain, Luca D’Andrea returns to the stunning Italian landscape of Alto Adige in this clever, twisting thriller that follows a woman on the run from her crime boss husband and the assassin sent to kill her. The Italian region of Alto-Adige is the northernmost part of the county, bordering Switzerland and Austria. The majestic Dolomites mountain range encompasses the area creating stark, beautiful landscapes. But this place of beauty also hides an evil side. For within the shadows of the towering Dolomites’ peaks, one man has forged a reign of terror. Since World War II, when he was only a boy, Herr Wegener has been entrenched in a black market crime organization. He is feared by all and controls everyone: politicians, police, and his wife, Marlene. But Marlene has finally had enough.... Unable to take her husband’s abuse and cruelty anymore, Marlene has reached her breaking point and goes on the run - but not before stealing millions of lire worth of sapphires from Wegener’s safe as well as his car. Marlene was a young woman when Wegener fell into her life by chance while she was working at a hotel to earn money for her family who still lives in a rural mountain town. He represented protection and sanctuary - until she found out too late how he made his money. But no one escapes Wegener, and he will make sure Marlene pays for her betrayal. Wegener sends a notorious assassin to kill his wife - an assassin known solely as The Trusted Man and who always gets the job done. Once he is given an assignment, he sees it through to the end no matter how difficult. Normally, this wouldn’t be a problem for Wegener. But then, one of his men discovers the one fact that would make him want Marlene alive. She’s pregnant with his son.... With nightmarish villains and kind-hearted heroes, Sanctuary is a fairy tale-esque thriller that will leave listeners racing to keep up with a cat and mouse game between a lunatic crime boss and his desperate, pregnant wife.
©2020 Luca D'Andrea (P)2020 HarperAudio
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La sustancia del mal [Beneath the Mountain]
Summary
El thriller literario del año. No devorarás este audio libro: este libro te devorará a ti. En 1985, durante una terrible tormenta, tres jóvenes son brutalmente asesinados en el Bletterbach, un enorme cañón tirolés cuyos fósiles cuentan la historia del mundo. Treinta años más tarde, el documentalista estadounidense Jeremiah Salinger se instala en la pequeña localidad alpina junto a su mujer y su hija pequeña y, a medida que va conociendo a los habitantes de la comunidad, se obsesiona con ese caso nunca resuelto. Nadie a su alrededor desea remover el pasado, como si aquel sangriento acontecimiento llevara consigo una maldición, y todos parecen esconder secretos inconfesables. Reseñas: «Un escenario sobrecogedor para el primer y emocionante thriller de Luca D'Andrea. [...] El autor intensifica la acción y la atmósfera con la firmeza y el estilo de un veterano escritor de novelacriminal.» (Marcel Berlins, The Times) «A lo Misery de Stephen King, [...] con iconos privados y muertes súbitas. [...] Me ha llamado la atención el que ninguno de los críticos que han abordado este relato brutal haya citado a Patricia Highsmith, siendo como es, a mi entender, una ascendiente ambiental de D'Andrea.» (Alfredo Taján, Sur) «El libro os iluminará salvajemente y entenderéis por qué se ha traducido a más de 30 idiomas. Pues, como decía más o menos Pierre Lemaitre, en literatura, el crimen es tan poderoso como el amor. Y (aquí) hay mucho de ambos. [...] La identidad del asesino o asesinos no se nos revelará hasta la última página. Por entre medio gozaremos de múltiples indicios, líneas de sondeo que son un atolladero, giros inesperados y escenas de magnífica ternura en oposición a otras de gran tensión y discreta elegancia narrativa.» (Ramón Ventura, El Periódico de Catalunya) Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2017 Alfaguara (P)2018 Audible, Inc.