| I Will Have Vengeance: The Winter of Commissario Ricciardi Contributor(s): De Giovanni, Maurizio (Author), Appel, Anne Milano |
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ISBN: 1609450949 ISBN-13: 9781609450946 Publisher: Europa Editions OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Commissario Ricciardi |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.3" W x 8.2" (0.65 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy - Chronological Period - 1930's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Commissario Ricciardi has visions. He sees the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths. It is both a gift and a curse. It has helped him become one of the most successful homicide detectives on the Naples police front. But the horror of his visions has hollowed him out emotionally. He drinks too much and sleeps too little. Other than his loyal partner, Brigadier Maione, he has no friends. Naples, March 1931: a bitter wind stalks the city streets, and murder lies at its chill heart. When the world's greatest tenor, Maestro Arnaldo Vezzi, is found brutally murdered in his dressing room at Naples' San Carlo Theatre, the enigmatic and aloof Commissario Ricciardi is called in to investigate. Arrogant and bad-tempered, Vezzi was adored by millions and hated by hundreds, but with the livelihoods of everyone at the San Carlo opera at stake, who there would have committed such an act? Ricciardi is determined to find out. Fans of Donna Leon and Manuel Vzquez Montalbn will thrill to this fresh voice in crime fiction. I Will Have Vengeance is the first book in a quartet of masterful crime novels set in fascist Italy. |