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August 2018
A long, rainy, deadly Autumn in Naples. That Autumn it seemed the rain in Naples
would never stop, and Commissario Ricciardi found himself having to face not
only a homicide but long-buried feelings that have grown thick roots inside
him. It’s been over fifteen years since
Vinnie Sannino left on a ship for America without telling anyone. There Vinnie
found fame, success, and wealth as a boxer, becoming the middleweight champion
of the world. But that all came to a terrifying halt when his last opponent
died in the ring and Vinnie lost his desire to fight. Now, he’s back in Italy in search of the
woman he left behind, Cettina, the love of his life. But Cettina has moved on.
She’s now a married woman. Or, she was until recently. Her husband, a wealthy
businessman, has been found murdered. There’s no murder weapon to speak of. He
was killed with a single blow to the head, not unlike the blow that felled
Vinnie’s opponent in the ring on that fateful night in America. Nameless
Serenade is by Maurizio De Giovanni
September 2018
In the night of Rome, nothing is what it seems. It’s all change in Rome. The new Pope,
determined to bring radical reform to the Vatican, proclaims an extraordinary
Jubilee year of Mercy. A new centre-left government replaces its disgraced
predecessor, and sets about to rejuvenate the language of politics. And with
crime lynchpin Samurai in jail, his protégé Sebastiano Laurenti attempts to
establish himself as his designated successor. But he must reckon not only with
a new generation of enterprising gangsters and racketeers—out to carve for
themselves a slice of the profits and opportunities offered by the major public
works planned for the Jubilee—but also with ambitious newly elected politician
Chiara Visoni, and his own heart. Betrayals, alliances forged and broken,
ambushes and infighting will inevitably alter the fragile political balance. As
the sharks circle and the street-dogs fight, some tenuous hope endures, in the
unlikely alliance of an incorruptible politician of the old left, all but
forgotten, and a young bishop who refuses to play the Vatican’s power games.
But it remains to be seen whether the long night of Rome can make room for
redemption. Sharp and fast-paced, dark and taut, The Night of Rome is by Carlo Bonini and Giancarlo De Cataldo
and is fiction that sails dangerously close to the wind of current events.
October 2018
Most of the remaining population of Vienna—a city scarred by
World War I in which the grandeur of the Habsburg Empire is a fading memory—is
surviving by its wits, living hand to mouth in a city rife with crime, prostitution, and grotesquely wounded beggars. There are shakedowns on every street corner, the black market is the only market, and shortages of vital goods create countless opportunities for unscrupulous operators. Into this cauldron of vice comes Inspector
August Emmerich, a veteran himself, whose ambitions lead him to break the rules
when necessary and whose abiding wish is to join the Viennese major crimes
unit. When a corpse is found in the woods outside the city and immediately
labeled a suicide, Emmerich, convinced it was nothing of the sort, sees a
chance to prove his mettle. His investigations will reveal an insidious and
homicidal urge lurking in the city. The Second Rider is by Alex Beer
