“This documentary thriller is psychogeography at its most perceptive, an insightful socio-economic analysis of Italy—and an attempt to understand what human beings are capable of doing to each other and to themselves.”—Anna Aslanyan, Financial Times
“I don’t think it’s possible to praise this book enough.”—Molly Odintz, CrimeReads
“Lagioia’s literary thriller provides a more complicated picture of crime and punishment than many crime novels, and the vivid depictions of Rome leap from the page.”—Jon Jeffryes, Library Journal
“Lagioia draws on court records and interviews with the men’s family and friends in an elegant plotting of the events that led up to their fatal encounter...Compelling.”—Miranda France, Times Literary Supplement
“The City of the Living is fiction at its best—fiction that breathes life into the facts of reality.”—Domenico Starnone, Corriere della Sera
“An absorbing study of the banality of evil.”—Kirkus Reviews
“The City of the Living will keep you up way past bedtime.”—Durango Telegraph
“A gripping thriller that turns into something much more monstrous and shocking by its conclusion...Startling.”—Zachary Houle, Medium
