Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

Blood curse : the springtime of Commissario Ricciardi / Maurizio De Giovanni ; translated from the Italian by Anthony Shugaar.

by De Giovanni, Maurizio, 1958-

View full image

Europa Editions, c2013.

Police -- Italy -- Fiction.

Fortune-tellers -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Naples (Italy) -- Fiction.

9781609451134 (trade pbk.)

La condanna del sangue. English English

343 p.. ; 21 cm.

Translation of: La condanna del sangue: la primavera del commissario Ricciardi.

Translated from the Italian.

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.

Mystery fiction.

Italian fiction -- Translations into English.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal