The Bottom of Your Heart: Inferno for Commissario Ricciardi

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In the middle of a Summer heatwave, as Naples prepares for one of its most solemn holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from his office window. For Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadiere Maione, it is the beginning of an investigation that will bring them into contact with the most torrid, conflicting and enduring of human passions. In the world they are about to enter, infidelity appears inextricable from the most joyful expressions of love and this interdependence sows doubt and uncertainty in both men, compromising their own attempts at love.

Reviews

"A richly textured story whose murder is nothing more than the point of entry."
--Kirkus Reviews

"A searing look at the tortured soul of the lead makes this entry especially memorable."
--Publisher's Weekly (Starred review)

"This congenital affliction makes Ricciardi a convincingly troubled detective rather than a noir clich. And here, as in the preceding novels, de Giovanni wisely keeps mysticism in check as he deepens the mystery at the novel's core."--The Barnes & Nobles Review

"A richly textured story whose murder is nothing more than the point of entry."
"Kirkus Reviews"
"A searing look at the tortured soul of the lead makes this entry especially memorable."
"Publisher's Weekly (Starred review)"
This congenital affliction makes Ricciardi a convincingly troubled detective rather than a noir cliche. And here, as in the preceding novels, de Giovanni wisely keeps mysticism in check as he deepens the mystery at the novel s core. "The Barnes & Nobles Review""

"A searing look at the tortured soul of the lead makes this entry especially memorable."
"Publisher's Weekly (Starred review)""

Author Bio

Maurizio de Giovanni lives and works in Naples. He is the author of five previous books in the Commissario Ricciardi series, I Will Have Vengeance, Blood Curse, Everyone in their Place, Day of the Dead, By My Hand, Viper, and the contemporary Neapolitan thriller, The Crocodile.