I WILL HAVE VENGEANCE
I Will Have Vengeance has been shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s International Dagger and the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger.
“The dead child was standing motionless at the intersection between Santa Teresa and the museum. He was watching two boys who were sitting on the ground, playing Giro d’Italia with marbles. As he watched them, he kept saying, ‘Can I go down? Can I go down?’
The man without a hat knew the dead child was there even before he saw him; he knew that the boy’s left side was intact while on the right the skull had been crushed by the impact, that the shoulder had been driven into the thoracic cavity, staving it in, and that the pelvis was twisted around the broken spinal column. ”
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- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 216
- ISBN-13: 978-0956379634
- RRP: £7.99
REVIEWS, COMMENTS AND INTERVIEWS
“Appel deserves credit for retaining de Giovanni’s distinct brand of noir in her translation, which will appeal to Agatha Christie and Manuel Vazquez Montalban fans” Publishers Weekly
“This has been the first crime fiction for me of the year and I could not have been happier about the choice” The Hungry Reader blog
“Lovers of opera, and I am one, will be intrigued with all the references to love, vengeance, murder, sorrow, pride, envy, and jealousy” Mary Whipple Reviews blog
“I love Commissario Ricciardi, so troubled and so valiant; if only I’d invented him myself!” S. J. Bolton
“A dark and distinctive Italian crime novel – a disturbing cocktail of fascist Naples and opera, with a fascinating and unusual hero. I look forward to seeing more of the Commissario Ricciardi and his strange psychological scars.” Andrew Taylor
An interview by Italicissima blog (in English)
“the combination of an unusual detective, historical setting and Italian opera was impossible to resist” Crimetime
“One of the main achievements of this book is the way it has to integrate the opera fiction into the main plot.” Jose Ignacio Escribano at The Game’s afoot blog
“Ricciardi has many traits that have become staples of fictional detectives…and yet these carry extra impressiveness when attributed to a police officer in Fascist Italy” Gareth in Killing Time blog
“It’s the small details which give the sense of the era…the pace feels unhurried, but never loses the reader’s interest” Sue at Novelheights blog
“…a welcome addition to the pantheon of Italian crime fiction. The book is written with great assurance, beautifully translated by Anne Milano Appel [...] The atmosphere of 1930s Naples is conveyed with what seems like authentic detail, and Ricciardi is a suitably principled, charismatic yet enigmatic detective” Maxine at Eurocrime
“…is an interesting, nuanced character, imbued with an appealing stoicism [...] expertly fuses elements of the historical crime novel with a distinctive, other-worldly dimension” Mrs Peabody’s blog
“…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 blog
“This is top quality crime fiction beautifully written by Maurizio De Giovanni” Norman at Crime Scraps blog
“…such detailed images in the novel that will haunt me for a long time to come” Keith in Books and Writers blog
“the setting here is a highlight…” Reactions to reading blog
“I’m happy to add yet another Italian author to my growing international crime fiction library” Nancy in Crime Segments blog
“De Giovanni’s writing has an enviable rhythm… it is clean, rich in chiaroscuro and subtleties” La Repubblica
“…words that flew lightly under the eyes and kept you glued to the pages” Armida Parisi, Roma
A review by Luigi Pingitore (in Italian)
Maurizio De Giovanni on Facebook
Interview by Corpi Freddi (Italian)
Video interview on TG5 national news (Italian) about his fourth book
Interview on Il Recensore (Italian)
Interview on Antonio Celano’s blog (Italian)
Cookery-related video interview (Italian)
An interview on the LiberidiScrivere blog (Italian)
An interview on the Rumori di Fondo blog (Italian)
Video interview on Il Giorno dei Morti (in Italian):
