El italian noir, so in keeping with Spanish in its Latin origins with corruption-oriented foothills and mafias installed at all levels, you will always miss a figure like Camilleri.
And yet, thanks to an author like Maurizio de GiovanniThis taste for criminal literature will still be in force in its aspect of police investigation that, under its particular seal, maintains those patterns of the great police writers of the second half of the XNUMXth century.
For that effect of penetration in every social and political sphere towards corruption capable of leading to crimes, de Giovanni also introduces us to his fetish characters that novel after novel present us with that underworld on which reality is sustained. Almost always with the Naples stage, a city full of as many charms as myths and black history.
Shared spaces in all social strata in which ambitions, passions, the desire for any quota of power and betrayals conspire to end up emerging periodically with their load of crude parallelism with the real chronicles that occasionally dot the news. when things get out of hand.
Not all his novelistic production has reached our country. But each one of the new stories that arrive confirms him as a fundamental author for police lovers with that hardboiled aftertaste that arouses intense emotions.
Top 3 recommended novels by Maurizio de Giovanni
The Autumn of Commissioner Ricciardi
Fourth novel in the series about the already glorious curator. We traveled to Naples in 1931. A strange and changing city from which many inhabitants emigrated in search of better luck while King Victor Manuel III, a native of the city, tried to find more prosperity for the capital.
In this rarefied environment, Commissioner Ricciardi takes the reins of a lurid case, that of a poor child who, had it not been for his will to investigate, would have come to be considered a natural death. The death of the boy on All Saints' Day itself, awakens a difficult feeling of tenderness among the cruelty that reigns in a few days in which such an aberrational murder can be covered up for whatever reason.
But Ricciardi already has the thorn of such dehumanization stuck in his heart. His passing through the streets of the city in search of the truth will lead us on a journey through disturbing moments in which the commissioner will be the only focus towards the needed justice and truth, before the shadows of the monstrous end up devouring the city .
And everything in half light
Naples again and once again Ricciardi in his sixth novel. A gruesome narrative about the old passions, secret loves, sentimental insults and tricks of a very special street woman who ended up being murdered in bed where she worked for very different characters in the city.
The clues to his death point the case towards the well-regarded Sergio Ventrone and towards Giuseppe Coppola completely given over to the captivating siren songs of the prostitute. But nothing can be discarded, many other men will have passed through the hands of Rosaria. And without a doubt some of them ended up losing their minds, assuming that he could rule over the entire life of the young woman.
A novel marked by two faces of need, exploitation and deception. And both motives are intertwined until the resolution of the case ends up breaking in with his unusual vision of hard life.
The crocodile method
With this novel begins the saga of the other great character of Maurizio de Giovani. I mean the Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono. The innermost Napolés is passed through the aroma of a time stopped.
Among its alleys it seems that everything has stopped, with that melancholic authenticity of the unreal. Inspector Lojacono, with a much greater existential weight than Ricciardi, faces the triple murder of three boys, an execution that is soon associated with the modus operandi of El Cocodrilo. If the persecution of the criminal supposes a reader incentive of the first magnitude, the determination of his motives will not be less ...
