I Will Have Vengeance [Paperback]

Commissario Ricciardi has visions. He sees the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths. It is both a gift and a curse. It has helped him become one of the most successful homicide detectives on the Naples police front. But the horror of his visions has hollowed him out emotionally. He drinks too much and sleeps too little. Other than his loyal partner, Brigadier Maione, he has no friends.

Naples, March 1931: a bitter wind stalks the city streets, and murder lies at its chill heart. When the worlds greatest tenor, Maestro Arnaldo Vezzi, is found brutally murdered in his dressing room at Naples San Carlo Theatre, the enigmatic and aloof Commissario Ricciardi is called in to investigate.

Arrogant and bad-tempered, Vezzi was adored by millions and hated by hundreds, but with the livelihoods of everyone at the San Carlo opera at stake, who there would have committed such an act? Ricciardi is determined to find out.

Fans of Donna Leon and Manuel V?zquez Montalb?n will thrill to this fresh voice in crime fiction.I Will Have Vengeanceis the first book in a quartet of masterful crime novels set in fascist Italy.Anne Milano Appelis an American translator of Italian literature. She obtained a doctorate in Romance languages from Rutgers University in 1970. She has translated, among others, works by Claudio Magris, Paolo Giordano, Giovanni Arpino and Goliarda Sapienza. She was awarded the John Florio Prize in 2012 for her translation of Arpino'sScent of a Woman. She is also working on English translations of GiordanosLike Family(2015, Pamela Dorman Books/Viking),Syrian Dustby Francesca Borri (2016, Seven Stories Press) andDon't Tell Me You're Afraidby Giuseppe Catozzella (2016, Penguin Press).

TARGET CONSUMER

Crime Fiction

New World Noir Packaging

Reissue of first Commissario Ricciardi novel

Historical detective crime fló¡