I Will Have Vengeance Paperback Author: Maurizio de Giovanni | Language: English | ISBN:
1609450949 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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"The combination of an unusual detective, historical setting and Italian opera was impossible to resist."
--Crimetime.co.uk
"...such detailed images in the novel that will haunt me for a long time to come"
--Books and Writers
"...a colourful novel that imparts a strong sense of time and place...there's more than a touch of Agatha Christie in this tale."
--Curious book fans
About the Author
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 In 2005, he won a writing competition for unpublished authors with a short story set in the thirties about Commissario Ricciardi, which was then turned into the first novel of the series.. His books have been successfully translated into French, Spanish and German, and are now available in English.
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- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Europa Editions (December 31, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1609450949
- ISBN-13: 978-1609450946
- Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Crime fiction is not everyone's cup of tea - to read or to write. It is more so difficult when you are writing crime fiction novels based in a time different than yours, you have to but after all keep in mind how the readers are going to react to those times and situations. At the same time, a writer needs to be more so intelligent when it comes to the plot and the overall series (because when anyone writes a crime novel, according to me it more or less turns to be a series). These and a lot of other elements make for a great crime novel, when synchronized and almost singing to each other.
"I Will Have Vengeance: The Winter of Commissario Ricciardi" is one such book, written with keen observation and some humour (in some places if not all) by Maurizio de Giovanni. At the core of the novel, as the title suggests is its protagonist, Commissario Ricciardi. The action takes place in Naples. It is 1931 and winter. The cold winds are biting and Ricciardi knows that something is going to happen. Sure enough, a murder takes place; that of one of the greatest tenors the world has ever known - Maestro Vezzi and that too in his dressing room at Naples famous San Carlo Theatre. The enigmatic and quite cold Ricciardi is called in for an investigation, with his loyal colleague Maione. The two make for a fantastic detective duo I have read about in a long time. The murder and its solving make for excellent reading, and that too because of a secret held by Ricciardi.
Maurizio de Giovanni wrote a short story at first and introduced Ricciardi in it. From there on it won a writing competition, and then paved way for other three books in the series. What struck me the most and stayed with me about the book was the setting.
(4.5 stars) Fans of Stieg Larsson's Mikael Blomqvist and Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole will find Maurizio De Giovanni's Baron Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi, the Neapolitan police hero of the first of four projected mysteries, a completely different kind of character. Commissario Ricciardi is neither as hard-boiled as Blomqvist nor as damaged by alcohol as Hole. In this novel, which is far more operatic in its structure than the Nordic novels, Maurizio De Giovanni creates a main character who feels far more sympathetic than those other two heroes. Now thirty and orphaned, Ricciari has no woman and no family life. He works at least twelve hours a day investigating the most challenging murders in Naples, and he is obviously still suffering from a trauma which occurred when he was a child and led to the first of his "Incidents," moments in which he connects with the souls of the immediately departed, seeing these victims in their last moments and overhearing their final thoughts.
Set in Naples in 1931, the novel takes place during the early rule of Benito Mussolini at a time in which the gap between the wealthy and poor is enormous, and De Giovanni uses these contrasts throughout the novel. Ricciardi and his only friend, Brigadier Raffaela Maione, age fifty, are called to the Royal Theatre of San Carlo to investigate the death of the world's greatest tenor, Arnaldo Vezzi, scheduled to sing the role of the clown in Pagliacci, murdered with a shard of mirror from his dressing room. When Ricciardi finds the body, it softly sings an aria, which, translated, reads: "I will have vengeance, My rage shall know no bounds, And all my love. Shall end in hate." Vengeance, rage, love, and hate, and their corollaries of pride, power, envy, jealousy, are the emotions Ricciardi believes are behind all murders.
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