Maurizio de Giovanni, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Europa (Penguin, dist.), $17 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-60945-119-6
De Giovanni (I Will Have Vengeance) manages to conjure up the terrifying darkness at the heart of a serial killer in this chilling procedural. A mob informant’s false accusation of corruption against Sicilian Insp. Giuseppe Lojacono not only derails
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Maurizio de Giovanni, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Europa/World Noir, $17 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-60945-206-3
The refreshing lack of cynicism of de Giovanni's two lead detectives, Brigadier Raffaele Maione and Commissario Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi, distinguishes the quietly enjoyable fifth Commissario Ricciardi mystery set in 1930s Naples (after Day of the...
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Maurizio de Giovanni, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Europa/World Noir, $17 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-60945-251-3
Set during Holy Week 1932, De Giovanni's engaging sixth Commissario Ricciardi mystery (after 2014's By My Hand) opens with the murder of Viper, Naples's most famous prostitute. She had only two regular clients: the owner of a sacred art shop, whose...
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Maurizio de Giovanni, trans. from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel. Europa (Penguin, dist.), $16 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-60945-094-6
The first English translation of veteran Italian crime writer de Giovanni, this murder mystery set in Fascist 1930s Italy introduces new readers to haughty homicide detective Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi. A loner cursed with a "scar on his soul,"...
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Maurizio de Giovanni, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Europa/World Noir, $16 trade paper (380p) ISBN 978-1-60945-143-1
De Giovanni's second novel featuring Naples Police Commisario Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi (after 2012's I Will Have Vengeance) combines a rare setting for a whodunit, Fascist Italy, with a classic fair play puzzle and a highly unusual lead. After a...
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Maurizio De Giovanni. Europa/World Noir, $17 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-60945-113-4
Aging tarot card reader Carmela Calise is bludgeoned to death in de Giovanni's (I Will Have Vengeance) very Italian second novel featuring Commissario Ricciardi, a man who can see the dead's final moments and hear their "last, obsessively repeated...
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Maurizio de Giovanni, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Europa (PRH, dist.), $18 trade paper (408p) ISBN 978-1-60945-293-3
De Giovanni’s complex, lyrical seventh whodunit set in Fascist Italy (after Viper) finds Commissario Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi, a public safety officer in Naples who has been cursed with the ability to see images of the recently dead, even more...
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Maurizio de Giovanni, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Europa (PRH, dist.), $18 trade paper (228p) ISBN 978-1-60945-314-5
In de Giovanni’s engrossing sequel to 2013’s The Crocodile, a band of miscreant detectives with blemishes on their records are transferred from various Naples precincts to the city’s Pizzofalcone region, to replace four corrupt cops. Lt. Giuseppe...
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Maurizio de Giovanni, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Europa, $18 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-60945-409-8
Love, longing, and loss suffuse de Giovanni's elegiac, autumnal eighth Commissario Ricciardi mystery set in 1930s Naples (after 2015's The Bottom of Your Heart). Mourning the recent death of Rosa, the only mother figure he has ever known, Ricciardi...
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Maurizio de Giovanni, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Europa, $17 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-60945-460-9
Deep melancholy infuses the crafty whodunit plot of de Giovanni’s superior ninth mystery set in 1930s Italy (after 2017’s Glass Souls). After the corpse of Constantino Irace, the owner of a celebrated fabric store, is discovered on a Naples street,...
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Maurizio de Giovanni, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Europa, $18 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-60945-525-5
In de Giovanni’s entertaining third police procedural set in Naples (after 2016’s Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone), the frigid winter weather is the main topic of conversation among the officers of the city’s Pizzofalcone precinct, “misfits
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Maurizio de Giovanni, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Europa, $18 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-60945-689-4
Early in de Giovanni’s witty, elegantly plotted sixth police procedural set in Naples, Italy (after 2020’s Puppies for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone), Lt. Giuseppe Lojacono is called to the scene of a shooting. He finds Pasquale Granato sprawled face
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Maurizio de Giovanni, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Europa, $18 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-60945-727-3
Set in 1930s Italy, De Giovanni’s elegant 10th novel featuring Neapolitan Commissario Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi (after 2018’s Nameless Serenade) opens with a tantalizing prologue in which an unknown narrator confesses to shooting Ricciardi. Flash back
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