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"De Giovanni has created one of the most interesting and well-drawn detectives in fiction."-The Daily BeastChristmas is over and a fog-draped Naples is preparing to celebrate the new year when, on stage, the famous actor Michelangelo Gelmi fires a prop gun at his wife, Fedora Marra. The scene is part of their perfor-mance and happens every night at this hour. But this time something goes wrong. The blanks have been replaced with live bullets.Approaching old age and with a career in decline, Gelmi has become increasingly dependent on his wife-a much younger, beautiful woman at the height of her fame. Rumor has it that she had fallen in love with another man and was going to leave him.Is it a straightforward case of infidelity and marital jealousy? Commissario Ricciardi has his doubts. Winter Swallows is a captivating, historical mystery set in 1930s Naples that will keep readers enthralled until its final, dramatic act.Praise for Maurizio de Giovanni's Commissario Ricciardi series"The romantic, suspenseful and political strains interweave and resolve in superbly artful fashion."-Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal"Love, longing, and loss suffuse de Giovanni's elegiac, autumnal eighth Commissario Ricciardi mystery."-Publishers Weekly"Like stepping into a Vittorio De Sica movie."-The New York Times

The second historical mystery featuring Commissario Ricciardi, "e;one of the most interesting and well-drawn detectives in fiction"e; (The Daily Beast).Commissario 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 out emotionally. He drinks and doesn't sleep. Other than his loyal partner, Brigadier Maione, he has no friends.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 learn that Calise was moonlighting as a fortuneteller and moneylender whose clients were some of the city's rich and powerful. She predicted their futures in such a way as to manipulate and deceive and made many enemies-those indebted to her, swayed 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."e;The promise that each life will intersect keeps Ricciardi and Maione's investigation lively."e; -Publishers Weekly"e;A well-crafted, ultimately moving crime novel set in 1931 Naples . . . This is a solid series with an intriguing detective, and fans will eagerly await the third volume."e; -Library Journal