“Set in 1930s Italy, De Giovanni’s elegant 10th novel featuring Neapolitan Commissario Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi (after 2018’s Nameless Serenade) opens with a tantalizing prologue in which an unknown narrator confesses to shooting Ricciardi... The chaste romance between Ricciardi and his true love, Enrica Colombo, who has rejected the marriage proposal of “a suave and captivating German officer,” provides welcome counterpoint to the murder investigation—which eventually ties in with Ricciardi’s shooting, which, no surprise, he survives. De Giovanni should win new fans with this one.”
Read the full review in Publishers Weekly.
