I Will Have Vengeance by Maurizio De Giovanni
Commissario Ricciardi has visions. He sees 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 successful homicide detectives on the Naples police front. But the horror of his visions has hollowed him out emotionally. He drinks too much and sleeps too little. Other than his loyal partner, Brigadier Maione, he has no friends. Naples, March 1931: a bitter wind stalks the city streets, and murder lies at its chill heart. When the world's greatest tenor, Maestro Arnaldo Vezzi, is found brutally murdered in his dressing room at Naples' San Carlo Theatre, the enigmatic and aloof Commissario Ricciardi is called in to investigate. Arrogant and bad-tempered, Vezzi was adored by millions and hated by hundreds, but with the livelihoods of everyone at the San Carlo opera at stake, who there would have committed such an act? Ricciardi is determined to find out. Fans of Donna Leon and Manuel Vzquez Montalbn will thrill to this fresh voice in crime fiction. I Will Have Vengeance is the first book in a quartet of masterful crime novels set in fascist Italy.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 He won a writing competition for unpublished authors of 2005 with a short narrative about Commissario Ricciardi set in the 1930s, which was later made into the first novel in a trilogy.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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781609450946 |
| ISBN 10 | 1609450949 |
| Title | I Will Have Vengeance |
| Author | Maurizio De Giovanni |
| Series | Commissario Ricciardi |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Europa Editions |
| Year published | 2012-12-31 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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