A long, rainy, deadly Autumn in Naples.
Commissario Ricciardi faces long buried personal feelings over the course of a rainy Naples Autumn, as well as an unusual case. A boxer who left Naples to become a champion, but who stopped boxing after accidentally striking dead an opponent, has returned to Naples, with his old flame's husband dying of a punch to the head not long after. Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.
Praise for Maurizio de Giovanni's Commissario Ricciardi series
"Naples in the early 1930s is the setting for Maurizio de Giovanni's "Nameless Serenade" (World Noir, 397 pages, $18), a series book (translated impressively from the Italian by Antony Shugaar) whose intense opening chapters approach the operatic. [...] These romantic, suspenseful and political strains interweave and resolve in superbly artful fashion."
-Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal
"Love, longing, and loss suffuse [Glass Souls], de Giovanni's elegiac, autumnal eighth Commissario Ricciardi mystery."
-Publishers Weekly
"This is a wonderful series, and I highly recommend it to mystery lovers,
as well as historical noir."
-Pulp Den
"Reading a novel by Maurizio de Giovanni is like stepping into a Vittorio
De Sica movie."
-The New York Times
"De Giovanni has created one of the most interesting and well-drawn
detectives in fiction."
-The Daily Beast
