Book 3 in de Giovanni's bestselling "Bastards of Pizzofalcone" series is set in contemporary Naples during season of cold winds, political hijinks, and murder.
A heinous, double murder in a squalid apartment on the wrong side of town pits Inspector Lojacono, Di Nardo and the rest of the motley collection of cops known as the "bastards" of the Pizzofalcone precinct against their superiors, the press, and the local political hierarchy. Only by bringing the killer to justice can they save their reputations and the department.
De Giovanni is one of the most versatile, prolific, and successful Eurpean mystery in Europe. His award-winning and bestselling novels, all set in Naples, offer a brilliant vision of the criminal underworld and the lives of the cops in Europe's most fabled, atmospheric, dangerous, and lustful city.
Ambientata a Napoli nei nostri giorni, la serie di Pizzofalcone (di cui questo è il terzo episodio) racconta le indagini e le avventure poliziesche ed umane di una squadra di poliziotti alle prese con il crimine a Napoli. Per i lettori di lingua inglese questo romanzo giallo è un¿ottima occasione per conoscere Napoli, i suoi problemi e la sua vitalità, ma anche tutta l¿Italia, appassionandosi alle storie dei numerosi personaggi.
Praise for Maurizio de Giovanni's Commissario Ricciardi series
"Naples in the early 1930s is the setting for Maurizio de Giovanni's Nameless Serenade (World Noir, 397 pages, $18), a series book (translated impressively from the Italian by Antony Shugaar) whose intense opening chapters approach the operatic. [...] These romantic, suspenseful and political strains interweave and resolve in superbly artful fashion."
?Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal
"Love, longing, and loss suffuse [Glass Souls], de Giovanni's elegiac, autumnal eighth Commissario Ricciardi mystery."
?Publishers Weekly
"This is a wonderful series, and I highly recommend it to mystery lovers,
as well as historical noir."
-Pulp Den
"Reading a novel by Maurizio de Giovanni is like stepping into a Vittorio
De Sica movie."
?The New York Times
"De Giovanni has created one of the most interesting and well-drawn
detectives in fiction."
?The Daily Beast
