The Day of the Dead

I Will Have Vengeance

By: Maurizio de Giovanni
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

Naples, 1931. A bitter wind stalks the city streets, and murder lies at its chilled heart. When Maestro Vezzi, one of the world's greatest tenors, is found brutally murdered in his dressing room at Naples' famous San Carlo theater, the enigmatic and aloof Commissario Ricciardi is called to investigate. Arrogant and bad-tempered, Vezzi was hate Read more »d...

Everyone in Their Place

By: Maurizio de Giovanni
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

Naples, 1931. Together with his indefatigable partner Brigadier Maione, Commissario Ricciardi, a man driven into solitude by his paranormal “gift” of seeing the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths—a talent that also makes him a highly effective investigator—is conducting an investigation into the death of the beautiful and... Read more »

The Day of the Dead

By: Maurizio de Giovanni
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

In this fourth installment of the internationally successful Commissario Ricciardi series, the commissario investigates the death of Matteo, one of the many street urchins who live hand-to-mouth in the dark alleys of 1930s Naples. While at first the death seems provoked by natural causes, there's more to the tragedy than meets th Read more »e...

By My Hand

By: Maurizio de Giovanni
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No

Maurizio de Giovanni presents By My Hand, the fifth book in the critically acclaimed Commissario Ricciardi series.

As Naples prepares for its holiday celebrations, behind the facade of order and happiness imposed by the fascist regime lurks terrible poverty and blinding desperation. In a luxurious apartment on the Mergellina beach, the bodies of... Read more »

Viper

By: Maurizio de Giovanni
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No

Naples, 1932. A week before Easter, springtime offers fragrant temptations to the men and women of Naples-but evil also lurks in the sweet-smelling spring air. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead after being suffocated with a pillow. Her last client swear Read more »s...

The Bottom of Your Heart

By: Maurizio de Giovanni
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No

In the middle of a summer heat wave, as Naples prepares for one of its most important holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from the window of his office. For Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione, it is the beginning of an investigation that will bring them into contact with the most torrid, conflicting, and enduring of human... Read more »