I Will Have Vengeance
(Mystery)
By Maurizio De Giovanni
ISBN #978-1609450946
Price $12.60
216 Pages
Rating 5-Stars
“A Page Turner!”
It’s 1931 in Naples, Italy,
and the great opera tenor, Arnaldo Vezzi is murdered in his dressing room
minutes before performing. Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi, Commissario of Public
Safety in the Mobile Squad, Royal Police Headquarters, and his partner, Brigadier
Raffaele Maione are assigned the investigation. The murderer could have been
anyone in the cast or stage crew, and it’s up to the investigators to unravel
the mystery. Ricciardi is cursed with second sight, and sees the ghost of
victims at the point of their death, and hears their final words. Usually
misleading, but he must figure out what it means. In this case it is an aria
the victim sings.
This is actually the first in
the series about Commissario Ricciardi, so I am already familiar with the main
characters. But the mystery is topnotch,
and the characters come alive. The reader doesn’t want to put the book down,
and it is a page-turner. Basically, the story introduces the main characters we
will be seeing more of in future stories. One is mentioned, but we don’t meet
him/her yet; we will in the second novel. There are no exciting action scenes,
but they are not needed in this brilliant new mystery series. Highly
recommended for readers who love a good plot, and interesting characters.
Tom Johnson
Detective Mystery Stories
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