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Transferred to Naples after a tangle with the Sicilian Mafia, Detective Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono feels that he's marking time, waiting out an awkward scandal.But when the bloodied bodies of teenagers start appearing around the city, victims of a strange and sinister killer whom police and locals ... More

As Naples prepares for its holiday celebrations, behind the facade of order and happiness imposed by the fascist regime, lurks terrible poverty and blinding desperation. In a luxurious apartment on the Mergellina beach the bodies of a fascist militia officer and his wife have been found. The woman h... More

A Commissario Ricciardi Neapolitan mystery that packs a real punch.Years ago, Vinnie Sannino left Naples on a ship bound for America, where he found fame and wealth as a boxer. But his gilded life in the new world came to an abrupt end when, during a fight, with a heavy punch to the head of his oppo... More

Naples detectives face a coldblooded killer amid the chill of winter in the third book of the Italian author&’s acclaimed mystery thriller series. A heinous double murder in a squalid apartment on the wrong side of town pits the motley collection of cops known as the &“bastards&” of the Pizzofalcone... More

An abandoned baby and a missing dog lead a group of Neapolitan cops to murder and mayhem in this mystery by the author of Cold for the Bastards.The next installment in Maurizio de Giovanni’s bestselling “Bastards of Pizzofalcone” series unfolds during the crisp beginning of April in contemporary Nap... More

Book three in the Commissario Ricciardi series. Naples 1931. Together with his indefatigable partner, Brigadier Maione, Ricciardi, a man driven into solitude by his paranormal "gift" of seeing the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths--a talent that also makes him a highly effectiv... More

Springtime proffers fragrant temptations to the men and women of Naples. But evil also lurks in the sweet-smelling spring air. It is one week before Easter, Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead. Suffo... More

A kidnapped child and the burglary of a high-class apartment: two crimes that seem to have no connection at all until Inspector Lojacono, known as "The Chinaman," starts to investigate. De Giovanni is one of the most dexterous and successful writers of crime fiction currently working in Europe. Hi... More

This is Naples as you’ve never seen it before. A chaotic, shadowy city full of ominous echoes and dark alleyways where each inhabitant seems too absorbed by his or her own problems to give a damn about anybody else. And that is exactly what makes it possible for a cold, methodical killer to commit... More

A new series of hardboiled crime fiction set in contemporary Naples by the author of the internationally bestselling Commissario Ricciardi series. They've made a fresh start at the Pizzofalcone precinct of Naples. They fired every member of the investigative branch after they were found guilty of co... More

In the middle of a summer heat wave, as Naples prepares for one of its most important holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from the window of his office. For Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione it is the beginning of an investigation that will bring them into contact with the mos... More

The eighth entry in Maurizio de Giovanni's internationally bestselling Commissario Ricciardi series.In the abyss of a profound personal crisis, Commissario Ricciardi feels unable to open himself up to life. He has refused the love of both Enrica and Livia and the friendship of his partner, Maione. C... More

In this fourth installment of the internationally successful Commissario Ricciardi series, the Commissario is investigating the death of Matteo, one of the many street urchins who live hand-to-mouth in the dark alleys of 1930s Naples. While at first the death seems provoked by natural causes, it qu... More

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 ou... More

Naples, March 1931: a bitter wind stalks the city streets, and murder lies at its chilled heart. As one of the world s greatest tenors, Maestro Vezzi, is found brutally murdered in his dressing room at Naples famous San Carlo Theatre, the enigmatic and aloof Commissario Ricciardi is called in to inv... More

En un Nápoles abatido por la lluvia y el salobre, una dama de la alta sociedad aparece brutalmente asesinada. El segundo caso del inspector Lojacono, un personaje tenebroso y tremendamente humano que está destinado a marcar el corazón de los lectores. Pizzofalcone es un distrito de Nápoles que emp... More

El Día de Todos los Santos de 1931 se acerca y en Nápoles llueve como si el cielo quisiera acompañar la tristeza del momento. A primera hora de la mañana, sentado en los peldaños de una escalera que lleva a Capodimonte, alguien descubre el cadáver de un niño: el pequeño cuerpo permanece sentado, dig... More

El sargento Raffaele Maione caminaba muerto de frío, preguntándose por enésima vez a quién se le habría ocurrido cometer un asesinato cuando faltaba una semana para la Navidad...Es una mañana gris de diciembre de 1931, se acercan las fiestas de Navidad, y Nápoles es una ciudad famosa por sus belenes... More

Corre el año 1932. Ha llegado la primavera a Nápoles, y las calles se llenan de gente dispuesta a estrenar vestidos ligeros y pamelas, pero Ricciardi está demasiado ocupado resolviendo un nuevo caso como para percatarse de que el aire es ahora más ligero: Rosaria, una joven de veinticinco años, ha s... More

La historia de un inspector, unos misteriosos asesinatos y la corrupción de la policía y la mafia. Este es el planteamiento del primer caso en Nápoles del inspector Lojacono, un personaje tenebroso y tremendamente humano que está destinado a marcar el corazón de los lectores. Esto es Nápoles como... More

El primer caso del comisario Ricciardi, el responsable de la brigada contra el crimen que actúa en Nápoles en 1931. Si pudiera decirlo, lo diría así: me llamo Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi, y veo a los muertos... Estamos en Nápoles y corre el año 1931, una época en que el fascismo en Italia goza de su... More

Otra de las aventuras del comisario Ricciardi, que en esta ocasión tiene que luchar también contra el calor asfixiante de las calles de Nápoles en verano. Corren los días más bochornosos del verano de 1931. La brisa marina no llega hasta las callejuelas de los bajos fondos de Nápoles, pero el mal ... More

La segunda aventura del gran comisario Ricciardi.Una serie policíaca distinta. Si pudiera decirlo, lo diría así: me llamo Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi, y veo a los muertos... Así se presentó a sus lectores el comisario Ricciardi en la primera entrega de la serie, y aquí lo tenemos de nuevo, ensimismado ... More

Estamos en Nápoles y corre el año 1931, una época en que el fascismo en Italia goza de sus momentos de gloria. Es invierno, y la ciudad parece adormilada por el frío, pero el comisario Ricciardi no para de trabajar. Hombre de pocas palabras, solitario y terco, ha heredado de su madre un extraño pode... More

Como siempre, Ricciardi, que tiene el don de ver a los muertos y oír sus últimas palabras, camina sin sombrero por las callejuelas de la ciudad, esta vez intentando buscar al culpable de la muerte de Carmela Calise, una anciana que vive en un piso miserable y se gana el sustento como vidente. Un bue... More