Blood curse
Subtitle: the springtime of Commissario Ricciardi
By: Maurizio De Giovanni ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar
Contributors: Shugaar, Antony
Series: World noir; World noir
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781609451134
Subjects: Fortune-tellers; Murder; Police; Fiction
Work titles: Condanna del sangue
Description: "Naples, 1931. In a working class apartment in the Sanita' neighborhood an elderly woman by the name of Carmela Calise has been beaten to death. When Ricciardi and Maione arrive at the scene they start asking the neighbors questions. No one wants to talk but slowly a few interesting facts slip out. Carmela Calise was moonlighting as a fortuneteller and moneylender. In her decrepit apartment she would receive clients, among them some of the city's rich and powerful, predicting their futures in such a way as to manipulate and deceive. If economic ruin lurked in their futures, Calise was happy to help. For a price, of course. She had many enemies, those indebted to her, manipulated by her lies, disappointed by her prophesies or destroyed by her machinations. Murder suspects in this atmospheric thriller abound and Commissario Ricciardi, one of the most original and intriguing investigators in contemporary crime fiction, will have his work cut out for him"--Jacket.