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The tenth Commissario Ricciardi Neapolitan mystery is ""endlessly surprising... a delicate balancing act between love and pain, horror and beauty.""--ThrillerNord Christmas has just passed and the city is preparing to celebrate New Year when, on the stage of a variety show, famous actor Michelangelo Gelmi fires a gun at his wife, Fedora Marra. The shooting itself would be nothing strange: it is repeated every evening as part of their performance. But this time, someone replaced one of the blanks with a real bullet. Gelmi swears his innocence, but few believe him. Approaching old age and with a career in decline, the actor has become increasingly dependent on his wife, much younger than him and at the height of her fame. However, rumor has it that she had fallen in love with another man and was preparing to leave Gelmi. A straightforward case of infidelity and marital jealousy? Commissario Ricciardi has more than one doubt. A mystery made darker by the sudden fog that envelops an almost gothic Naples, Commissario Riccardi's latest adventure will enrapture readers until its final, dramatic act.

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"Praise for Winter Swallows ""Commissario Ricciardi faces murder among a theatrical troupe whose members are just as devious as he is....Even fans of the series are likely to be surprised when the curtain finally falls.""--Kirkus Reviews ""Set in 1930s Italy, De Giovanni's elegant 10th novel featuring Neapolitan Commissario Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi opens with a tantalizing prologue in which an unknown narrator confesses to shooting Ricciardi... The chaste romance between Ricciardi and his true love, Enrica Colombo provides welcome counterpoint to the murder investigation... De Giovanni should win new fans with this one.""--Publishers Weekly Praise for Maurizio de Giovanni's Commissario Ricciardi series ""Naples in the early 1930s is the setting for Maurizio de Giovanni's Nameless Serenade, 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"

Praise for Maurizio de Giovanni's Commissario Ricciardi series Naples in the early 1930s is the setting for Maurizio de Giovanni's Nameless Serenade, 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

Praise for Winter Swallows Commissario Ricciardi faces murder among a theatrical troupe whose members are just as devious as he is....Even fans of the series are likely to be surprised when the curtain finally falls. --Kirkus Reviews Praise for Maurizio de Giovanni's Commissario Ricciardi series Naples in the early 1930s is the setting for Maurizio de Giovanni's Nameless Serenade, 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

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Maurizio de Giovanni's Commissario Ricciardi books are bestsellers across Europe, having sold well over one million copies. De Giovanni is also the author of the contemporary Neapolitan thriller, The Crocodile (Europa, 2013), and the new contemporary Neapolitan series, The Bastards of Pizzofalcone. He lives in Naples with his family. Antony Shugaar's translations for Europa Editions include For Grace Received by Valeria Parrella, Everybody's Right by Paolo Sorrentino, Fabio Bartolomei's Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles, and Margherita Dolce Vita by Stefano Benni.

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