Praise for Winter Swallows
"Commissario Ricciardi faces murder among a theatrical troupe whose members are just as devious as he is....Even fans of the series are likely to be surprised when the curtain finally falls."–Kirkus Reviews
"Set in 1930s Italy, De Giovanni's elegant 10th novel featuring Neapolitan Commissario Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi opens with a tantalizing prologue in which an unknown narrator confesses to shooting Ricciardi... The chaste romance between Ricciardi and his true love, Enrica Colombo provides welcome counterpoint to the murder investigation... De Giovanni should win new fans with this one."–Publishers Weekly
Praise for Maurizio de Giovanni's Commissario Ricciardi series
"Naples in the early 1930s is the setting for Maurizio de Giovanni's Nameless Serenade, a series book (translated impressively from the Italian by Antony Shugaar) whose intense opening chapters approach the operatic. [...] These romantic, suspenseful and political strains interweave and resolve in superbly artful fashion."– Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal
"Love, longing, and loss suffuse [Glass Souls], de Giovanni's elegiac, autumnal eighth Commissario Ricciardi mystery."–Publishers Weekly
"This is a wonderful series, and I highly recommend it to mystery lovers, as well as historical noir."–Pulp Den
"Reading a novel by Maurizio de Giovanni is like stepping into a Vittorio De Sica movie."–The New York Times
"De Giovanni has created one of the most interesting and well-drawn detectives in fiction."–The Daily Beast
