Book three in the Commissario Ricciardi series. Naples 1931. Together with his indefatigable partner, Brigadier Maione, Ricciardi, a man driven into solitude by his paranormal “gift” of seeing the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths—a talent that also makes him a highly effective investigator—is conducting an investigation into the death of the beautiful and mysterious Duchess of Camparino, whose connections to privileged Neapolitan social circles and the local fascist elite make the case a powder keg waiting to explode.

Maurizio de Giovanni
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 In 2005, he won a writing competition for unpublished authors with a short story set in the thirties about Commissario Ricciardi, which was then turned into the first novel of the series.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 for the first time.

• May 27 2016
  The Mysteries of Naples
  — The Wall Street Journal
• Sep 22 2014
  Publishers Weekly Starred Review: "The book's strongest appeal is in its convincing portrayal of life under Mussolini."
  
• May 7 2014
  Crime Scraps: "A brilliant example of noir that drifts pleasingly into black comedy... This is the best book of the trilogy so far."
  
• Dec 15 2013
  The New York Times: Reading a novel by Maurizio de Giovanni is like stepping into a Vittorio De Sica movie."
  
• Dec 4 2013
  ShotsMag: Selects Everyone in Their Place as Shot of the Year In Translation
  
• Dec 3 2013
  Mary Whipple Reviews: [The reader is] so intrigued (and often charmed) with [de Giovanni's] characters, and Commissario Ricciardi, in particular, that the wait for THE DAY OF THE DEAD, due in April 2014, seems very long."