Blood Curse by Maurizio Giovanni
Ricciardi has visions. He sees and hears 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 acute and successful homicide detectives in the Naples police force. But all that horror and suffering has hollowed him out emotionally. He drinks and doesn't sleep. Other than his loyal partner Brigadier Maione he has no friends. Naples, 1931. In a working class apartment in the Sanita' neighborhood an elderly woman by the name of Carmela Calise has been beaten to death. When Ricciardi and Maione arrive at the scene they start asking the neighbors questions. No one wants to talk but slowly a few interesting facts slip out. Carmela Calise was moonlighting as a fortuneteller and moneylender. In her decrepit apartment she would receive clients, among them some of the city's rich and powerful, predicting their futures in such a way as to manipulate and deceive. If economic ruin lurked in their futures, Calise was happy to help. For a price, of course. She had many enemies, those indebted to her, manipulated by her lies, disappointed by her prophesies or destroyed by her machinations. Murder suspects in this atmospheric thriller abound and Commissario Ricciardi, one of the most original and intriguing investigators in contemporary crime fiction, will have his work cut out for him.
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The Crocodile
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The Bastards Of Pizzofalcone
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Bread
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I Will Have Vengeance
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Glass Souls
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Puppies
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Everyone in Their Place
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Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
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Cold for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
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Winter Swallows
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Il senso del dolore
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L'equazione del cuore
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Per mano mia.Il Natale del commissario Ricciardi
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Soledad. Un dicembre del commissario Ricciardi (Einaudi. Stile libero big)
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Il pianto dell'alba.Ultima ombra per il commissario Ricciardi
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Cuccioli - per i bastardi di Pizzofalcone
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I bastardi di Pizzofalcone
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Il giorno dei morti
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In fondo al tuo cuore
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Sara al tramonto
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Gli occhi di Sara
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Dodici rose a Settembre
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Nozze.Per i Bastardi di Pizzofalcone
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La condanna del sangue
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Il posto di ognuno
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Troppo freddo per settembre
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Un volo per Sara
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Il resto della settimana
Maurizio de Giovanni is a Naples-based artist. He won a writing competition for unpublished authors of 2005 with a short narrative about Commissario Ricciardi set in the 1930s, which was later made into the first novel in a trilogy. His writings have been translated into French, Spanish, and German, and they are now available in English as well.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781609451134 |
| ISBN 10 | 1609451139 |
| Title | Blood Curse |
| Author | Maurizio De Giovanni |
| Series | Commissario Ricciardi |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Europa Editions |
| Year published | 2013-05-09 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |