Ricciardi 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 Naples police force. But it has taken an emotional toll on him. He drinks too much and sleeps too
little. Other than his loyal friend
Brigadier Maione, he has no friends. Naples,
1931, in a dingy apartment in a poor neighbourhood the victim, Carmela Calise an
elderly woman moonlighting as a fortune-teller and moneylender has been
viciously beaten to death. Then
Ricciardi and his deputy Maione arrive at the scene and start asking questions
no one wants to answer. 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. She had many enemies, those who have been
manipulated by her lies, disappointed by her prophecies or destroyed by her machinations. Blood
Curse: The Springtime of Commissario Ricciard is the second book in the Commissario
Ricciard series by Maurizio de Giovanni and is due to be published in May 2013.
Garlic, Basil and Sweet Basil is
by Jean-Claude Izzo and is due to be published in May 2013. Available for the first time in English in
Howard Curtis's brilliant translation this collection of personal essays shows
Izzo at his most contemplative and insightful.
He writes beautifully about the city he loved, the sea to which he
belonged, and the literary movement that made him famous. A must-read for all lovers of Izzo's
Marseilles Trilogy.
Giorgio Pellegrini, the
unforgettable hero of The Goodbye Kiss,
has been living an "honest" life for eleven
years. But that's about to change. His lawyer has been deceiving him and now
Giorgio is forced into service as an unwilling errand boy for an organised
crime syndicate. At one time, Giorgio
wouldn't have thought twice about robbing, kidnapping and killing in order to
get what he wanted, but these days he realises he's too old in the tooth to
face his enemies head-on. To return to
his peaceful life as a successful businessman he's going to have to find
another way to shake off the mob. Fortunately,
though Giorgio’s circumstances may have changed, deep down he’s still the
ruthless killer he used to be. At The End of a Dull Day is by Massimo Carlotto and is due to be published in May 2013.
For the first time, Carlo
Lucarelli's entire De Luca trilogy is gathered in one omnibus edition. In 'Carte
Blanche', it is April 1945 and a brutal murder on the good side of town
lands Commissario De Luca in the middle of a hornet's nest during the final
frenetic days of the Salo Republic where the rich and powerful mix drugs, sex,
money and murder. In 'The Damned Season', De Luca is on the
run under an assumed identity to avoid reprisals for the role he played during
the Fascist dictatorship. Blackmailed by
a member of the partisan police, De Luca must investigate a series of murders,
becoming a reluctant player in Italy’s post-war power struggle. In 'Via
delle Oche’, the country’s fate is soon to be decided in bitterly contested
national elections and a man is found dead in a brothel in 1948. De Luca is unwilling to look the other way
when evidence in the murder points to local politicians. The Trilogy is due to be published in June 2013.
It's the middle of a long hot
summer on the French Mediterranean shore.
The town is full of tourists and at the Perpignan police headquarters,
Sebag and Molina, two tired cops who are being slowly devoured by dull routine
and family worries, deal with the day's misdemeanours and petty complaints. But out of the blue, a young Dutch woman is
brutally murdered on a beach at Argelès, and another disappears without a trace
in the alleys of the city. A serial
killer obsessed with Dutch women? Maybe. The media goes wild. Gilles Sebag finds himself thrust into the
middle of a diabolical game. To come out
victorious, he will have to put aside his domestic cares, forget his suspicions
of his wife’s unfaithfulness, ignore his heart murmur, and get over his
existential angst. Summertime All the Cats are Bored is by Philippe Georget and is due
to be published in July 2013.
The report has just landed on
Commissario Martusciello’s desk is unlike any other The lifeless body of Neapolitan singer Jerry Vialdi has been found at the
Naples football stadium; another corpse, this time an unidentified woman, has
been discovered in the Bentegodi Stadium in Verona. They were left with no signs of violence: the
method and the madness point to a daring challenge for the police, who has no
idea where to begin. All except for
Superintendent Blanca Occhiuzzi: beautiful, blind from birth, forced by the
dark that envelopes to perceive the world through four senses, she feels the
fear in people, their guilt and their innocence. It is she who takes Martusciello by the hand
guiding him into the mind of a murderer with her very female, very sensual
intuition. It is as if he were the blind
one. Three, Imperfect Number is by Patrizia Rinaldi and is due to be published in August 2013.
Europa Editions are also due to
reissue Jean Claude Izzo’s Marseilles Trilogy and Minotaur by Benjamin Tammuz in May 2013.
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