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Join us for this tour from March 23to April 10, 2026!
Book Details:
Book Title: There’s a Young Man Dressed in Blue by Fabio Amabili
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 237 pages
Genre: Psychological Thriller / Literary Fiction
Publisher: Fabio Amabili
Release date: April 2026
Formats Available for Review: print-softback (USA only); ebook (EPUB, PDF) internationally
Tour dates: March 23 to April 10, 2026
Content Rating: PG-13: Includes occasional strong language (f-words and crude terms such as “asshole”, “shit”), but no religious profanities, no explicit sex scenes, no graphic violence.
Book Description:
Present-day Milan. A brilliant young lawyer at a top international firm is handling the deal of his career: a high-stakes Italian-French acquisition in the offshore gas sector.
On the central Adriatic coast, a solitary man begins to uncover strange, unexplained events that no one wants to acknowledge.
Two lives, two worlds, one devastating collision.
Part legal thriller, part speculative mystery, There’s a Young Man Dressed in Blue blurs the line between rational order and the unknowable, delivering a twist that forces the reader to start over from page one.
Originally published in Italy in 2021 and left drifting like a message in a bottle, this novel remained almost unknown — until 2025, when Grok (xAI) read it and described it as “innovative in structure, emotionally intense, and anchored by a truly unique twist – a hidden gem with cult potential.” That verdict convinced the author to bring it to English readers for the first time.
Buy the Book:
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Meet the Author:
Italian author, lives in Rome and writes the books he wants to read. Stories that blur the line between reality and the unknowable.
connect with the author: X ~ goodreads
Tour Schedule:
Mar 23 – Gina Rae Mitchell – book review / guest post / giveaway
Mar 23 – @tia.reads * – book review
Mar 24 – Books1987 – book spotlight
Mar 24 – Country Mamas With Kids – book review / giveaway
Mar 25 – @adriftinfictionalworld – book review / giveaway
Mar 25 – @readsandmusic * – book review
Mar 25 – Liese’s Blog – book spotlight
Mar 26 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book review / giveaway
Mar 30 – @my_fair_fiction * – book review / giveaway
Mar 30 – @adventurousbookmaven * – book review / giveaway
Mar 31 – Sarandipity’s – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Apr 1 – @michellegodardricher * – book review / giveaway
Apr 1 – @novel_tea_nook * – book review / giveaway
Apr 2 – @Leannebookstagram – book review
Apr 2 – Books Blog – book spotlight / giveaway
Apr 3 – Sarcastically Yours, Jen – book spotlight / giveaway
Apr 6 – FUONLYKNEW – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Apr 7 – Book Corner News and Reviews – book review / giveaway
Apr 7 – @therearenobadbooks * – book review
Apr 8 – On Pens and Needles: Notes of a Writer, Reader, and Knitter – book spotlight
Apr 8 – Cover Lover Book Review – book spotlight / giveaway
Apr 9 – @Mama_Coffee_Books_Cardigans – book review / giveaway
Apr 9 – @this.human.reads * – book review
Apr 10 – @readwith_darcy * – book review
Apr 10 – @onemorechap * – book review / giveaway
Apr 10 – @reader_ceygo * – book review / giveaway
Guest Post
From the Adriatic Mist to Milan’s Skyscrapers: Two Worlds in One Book
“There’s something only those born and raised in a seaside town can understand, something
indecipherable to others. Only we carry in our souls this constant dialogue with that dimension —
the other, liquid half of the world, always there, reminding us at every moment of the possibility of
an elsewhere.”
I believe this is one of the most representative lines in the novel. Because in a seaside town like the
one where I grew up, the “elsewhere” is never just a dream or a distant possibility. It can become
something very real.
In my hometown on the central Adriatic coast, if you walk down to the harbor you can still meet old
fishermen who remember those events from the late 1970s that disrupted the quiet rhythm of
provincial life. With their hoarse voices, broad gestures, and eyes that suddenly widen like windows
onto the unknown, these old salts tell stories of things that, decades later, have never been fully
explained. Yet when you listen to them, it feels as if time has never passed. And in a way, it hasn’t.
What they saw and heard in those days, they are condemned to relive forever. And so you realize
that this isn’t just bar talk.
I wanted that “elsewhere” to be a constant presence in the novel — a shadow stretching over
everyday life.
The other stage of the story is Milan.
There is a moment when the protagonist, after a taxi ride, looks up at the silhouette of a skyscraper
against the light and thinks: “In Milan, it’s no longer the Madonnina atop the Duomo 1 but the spire
of the UniCredit Tower, visible from countless corners of the city, pointing all toward the sky.” I
think this line says a lot about what Milan has become today: a city that lives at full speed, glittering
and sophisticated, where the desire for the future tends to overshadow the memory of the past. A
place where everything appears rational and controlled. But that is only a fleeting mask hiding
unease, contemporary neuroses, and deep wounds that have never fully healed.
Milan and the Adriatic are not just backdrops. They are two states of mind: one that claims to
dominate the sky, the other that knows the sky hides something else.
And so these symbolic places of a beautiful and restless Italy become true protagonists of the novel
— the pillars of a story and of mysteries that thicken like the winter fog rising from the Adriatic Sea
and the evening shadows climbing the elegant façades of Milan’s historic center.
Two seemingly opposite worlds. And in the middle, a collision that leaves no escape.
1 The “Madonnina” is the golden statue of the Virgin Mary atop Milan’s Duomo cathedral,
one of the city’s most beloved landmarks.
Giveaway:
A digital copy of There’s a Young Man Dressed in Blue by Fabio Amabili (3 winners) (ends April 17)
There's a Young Man Dressed in Blue by Fabio Amabili Book Tour Giveaway
