Maurizio de Giovanni lives and works in Naples. In 2005, he won a writing competition for unpublished authors with a short story set in the '30s about Commissario Ricciardi, which was then turned into the first novel of the series. His books have been successfully translated into French, Spanish and German, and are now available in English for the first time.

Books by Maurizio de Giovanni

The Crocodile

written by Maurizio de Giovanni, translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar - Fiction, Mystery, Police Procedural

Three young people with very diverse backgrounds have been found murdered in three different neighborhoods, each shot with a single bullet, execution style. While his colleagues see little or no connection, Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono smells a rat. He is driven by his instincts and his own troubled recent history.