I Will Have Vengeance, Maurizio de Giovanni
I Will Have Vengeance, Maurizio de Giovanni
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I Will Have Vengeance
The Winter of Commissario Ricciardi 

Author: Maurizio de Giovanni, Anne Milano Appel

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 6 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/05/2015

Synopsis

Naples, 1931. A bitter wind stalks the city streets, and murder lies at its chilled heart. When Maestro Vezzi, one of the world’s greatest tenors, is found brutally murdered in his dressing room at Naples’ famous San Carlo theater, the enigmatic and aloof Commissario Ricciardi is called to investigate. Arrogant and bad-tempered, Vezzi was hated by many. But with the livelihoods of the opera at stake, who would have committed such a callous act? Ricciardi and his loyal colleague Maione are determined to discover the truth, but Ricciardi carries a secret of his own. Will it help him solve this murder?

About Maurizio de Giovanni

Maurizio de Giovanni lives and works in Naples. In 2005 he won a writing competition for unpublished authors with a short story set in the 1930s about Commissario Ricciardi, which was then turned into the first novel of a series. His books have been successfully translated into French, Spanish, and German and are now available in English.

About Anne Milano Appel

Anne Milano Appel is a translator of Italian to English. She was awarded the Italian Prose in Translation Award in 2015, the John Florio Prize for Italian Translation in 2013, and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction Translation in 2013 and 2014. To learn more, visit annemilanoappel.com.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

*****RECENTLY FEATURED IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.***** ”He saw a man sitting on the ground holding both arms tightly around his stomach as if hugging himself. A yellowish foam bubbling with air oozed from his mouth. His eyes were glassy, Even from a distance like that, the Commissario could make out......more

Goodreads review by Jim

Revised, pictures added 5/24/22 An Italian detective story. All prose and TV detectives have their oddities, almost as if they are in a competition for the quirkiest. But here we have Commissario Ricciardi who is partly psychic in that he can “relive” the crime from the victim’s point of view and th......more

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Έτσι είναι όταν βλέπεις στους δρόμους νεκρούς να σου μιλάνε με τις πληγές ανοιχτές και το αίμα ακόμα να ρέει.......more

Quotes

“The combination of an unusual detective, historical setting, and Italian opera was impossible to resist.” Crimetime.co.uk

“A loner cursed with a ‘scar on his soul,’ Commissario Ricciardi can see in his mind’s eye the final moments in the lives of victims…Under pressure from his superior, who is eager to deliver swift justice in such a high-profile case and win Il Duce’s praises, the detective pieces together two disparate story lines for a drawn-out but didn’t-see-it-coming denouement. Appel deserves credit for retaining de Giovanni’s distinct brand of noir in her translation, which will appeal to Agatha Christie and Manuel Vazquez Montalban fans.” Publishers Weekly

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