Viper
By: by Maurizio De Giovanni ; translated by Antony Shugaar
Contributors: Shugaar, Antony, translator
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781609452513
Subjects: Fiction; Commissario Ricciardi (Fictitious character); History
Description: Springtime proffers fragrant temptations to the men and women of Naples. But evil also lurks in the sweet-smelling spring air. It is one week before Easter, Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead. Suffocated with a pillow. Her last client swears that when he left her she was alive and well. But when her next client arrived, he found her dead. Who killed her and why? Ricciardi has to untangle a complex knot of greed, frustration, jealousy and rancor in order to solve the riddle of Viper's death. As he does so, he will discover no end of conflicting emotions just beneath the surface of a city that lives on passion.
Notes: Translated from the Italian.