Everyone in Their Place: The Summer of Commissario Ricciardi
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (599 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00EV4ZRT0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 526 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards. About the Author Maurizio de Giovanni lives and works in Naples. . His books have been successfully translated into French, Spanish, and German and are now available in English.Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over eight hundred titles to his credit. In 2005 he won a writing competition for unpublished authors with a short s
. In 2005 he won a writing competition for unpublished authors with a short story set in the 1930s about Commissario Ricciardi, which was then turned into the first novel of a series. Maurizio de Giovanni lives and works in Naples. His books have been successfully translated into French, Spanish, and German and are now availabl
Naples 1931. Book three in the Commissario Ricciardi series. 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 effective investigator—is conducting an investigation into the death of the beautiful and mysterious Duchess of Camparino, whose connections to Neapolitan privileged social circles and the local fascist elite make the case a powder keg waiting to blow.
"A thorough exploration of the fatal illness of love" according to Patto. This is an author who portrays the human passions with amazing flair and poignancy. The protagonist, Commissario Ricciardi, the most solitary man in Naples, is suffering as much as everyone else in this book. He has a murder case that exposes him to the inferno of the human soul, and he's in his own personal inferno, paralyzed by love and jealousy.Jealousy also attacks his faithful subordinate, Brigadier Maiano, whose groundless fears about his wife and a local grocer drive him to extreme dieting. His hunger pangs and Ricciardi's pangs of jealousy achieve comic proportions. Another comic element is Ric. propertius said Indescribably Perfect In Its Execution. This latest masterpiece from De Giovanni (and it is one) is so complex and so rewarding that it is difficult to be succinct in describing it. The tempo of the book vacillates from a almost surreal beginning with neo-Gothic overtones to a traditional noir mystery to a stunning conclusion.Our haunted hero Ricciardi still sees the ghosts of victims of violent deaths (The Deed) as he travels through the city. It almost seems as though we will be reading a ghost story. However, to keep a balance to the book, De Giovanni manages to punctuates the story line with the tragi-comic problems of his partner Brigad. “A man dies when his life no longer means anything to anyone else.” Mary Whipple (4.5 stars) Commissario Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi deals with his personal ghosts at the same time that he also works to solve murders in the Department of Public Safety in Naples during the rule of Benito Mussolini in 1931. Ricciardi, a compulsively private man who shares nothing about his life with those he works with, is the orphaned only child of aristocratic parents. For the past year his one real enjoyment has been looking out his bedroom window across the way to the sitting room of a young woman, Enrica Colombo, who sits there patiently embroidering every night. Enrica and Ricciardi have quietly be