Winter Swallows
"De Giovanni has created one of the most interesting and well-drawn detectives in fiction."-The Daily Beast
Christmas is over and a fog-draped Naples is preparing to celebrate the new year when, on stage, the famous actor Michelangelo Gelmi fires a prop gun at his wife, Fedora Marra. The scene is part of their perfor-mance and happens every night at this hour. But this time something goes wrong. The blanks have been replaced with live bullets.
Approaching old age and with a career in decline, Gelmi has become increasingly dependent on his wife-a much younger, beautiful woman at the height of her fame. Rumor has it that she had fallen in love with another man and was going to leave him.
Is it a straightforward case of infidelity and marital jealousy? Commissario Ricciardi has his doubts. Winter Swallows is a captivating, historical mystery set in 1930s Naples that will keep readers enthralled until its final, dramatic act.
Praise for Maurizio de Giovanni's Commissario Ricciardi series
"The romantic, suspenseful and political strains interweave and resolve in superbly artful fashion."-Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal
"Love, longing, and loss suffuse de Giovanni's elegiac, autumnal eighth Commissario Ricciardi mystery."-Publishers Weekly
"Like stepping into a Vittorio De Sica movie."-The New York Times
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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.
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
