Author spotlight · Nightgrave editorial
Piero Fiorentini brings Tuscia noir to Nightgrave.
A voice shaped by place, family memory, and the silence between generations.
Born in Viterbo, Piero Fiorentini writes with the intimacy of someone who understands that a landscape can remember. His Italian-language novel Il Sangue tra i Castagni moves through Canepina, San Martino al Cimino, Viterbo, and the Monti Cimini, turning stone villages and chestnut forests into witnesses to a family’s buried history.
The 66,867-word family noir is set in 1993, but its conflicts reach backward through generations. Loyalty offers protection and danger in equal measure. Silence keeps the peace until it becomes its own kind of betrayal. When violence reaches from Florida to the hills of Tuscia, the past becomes impossible to contain.
“In Fiorentini’s noir, the landscape does not hide the truth. It waits for the family to become ready—or desperate enough—to face it.”
Fiorentini expands Nightgrave’s idea of dark fiction. His work connects crime, memory, and inheritance across cultures while remaining grounded in one unmistakable place. That sense of place gives Il Sangue tra i Castagni its atmosphere; the family at its center gives the novel its pulse.
Un noir familiare in cui il paesaggio conserva la memoria, la lealtà può diventare una condanna e ogni silenzio ha un prezzo.