Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
A Bastards of Pizzofalcone Book
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Narrateur(s):
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Chris Kayser
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Auteur(s):
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Maurizio de Giovanni
À propos de cet audio
Second in the contemporary Italian crime-fiction series featuring Inspector Lojacono by the best-selling author of the Commissario Ricciardi novels.
A kidnapped child and the burglary of a high-class apartment: Two crimes that seem to have no connection at all until Inspector Lojacono, known as “The Chinaman”, starts to investigate.
Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone is the second book in a series set in contemporary Naples that draws inspiration from Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct novels and features a large cast of complicated cops doing battle with ruthless criminals. De Giovanni is one of the most dexterous and successful writers of crime fiction currently working in Europe. His award-winning and best-selling novels, all set in Naples, offer a brilliant vision of the criminal underworld and the police that battle it in Europe’s most fabled, atmospheric, dangerous, and lustful city.
“Imagine Fellini and Chandler collaborating on a Neapolitan remake of Our Town, and that begins to give you an idea of what you’re in for with Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone.... While de Giovanni never wavers from a world where terrible people do terrible things, motivated by selfishness, greed, and loathing (for themselves, for others, for both), he illuminates the soft underbelly of fear and loss without being manipulative.” (Los Angeles Review of Books)
“The police characters are flawed, lovable, and believable - you cannot but take to them.... Naples comes through loud and clear in the story." (Tripfiction)
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- Genevieve Paquette
- 2021-04-09
great
Listened in English. I think I like this series. The pacing is excellent, it's solidly entertaining, and the author isn't afraid to go "there." I like that his characters are genuinely awful people, but that we aren't actually supposed to like them. There is a scene where the young, flagrantly racist detective is preening over himself and thinking about how wonderful he is. He passes a chambermaid and smiles at her, thinking about how his carefully constructed smile must have made her day. Then we get the perspective of the woman who basically thinks he's an idiot. It was perfect. They're not great people (some worse than others- the racist, the deluded wife beater and the one who seriously considered drowning her autistic son... yikes), but they get the job done.
The mystery in this one was a heartbreaker and the ending left me kind of shaken up. I found myself checking to make sure that it really was the end. Oof. It was unexpectedly emotional.
Also, I love the suspicious suicides subplot, which manages to inject both a little levity and some creeping unease/ongoing threat into the story.
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