From the first chapter: “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?’ ”

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REVIEWS, COMMENTS AND INTERVIEWS

"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

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):