I Will Have Vengeance

Commissario Ricciardi 1

Translator Anne Milano Appel
First Written 2007
Genre Fiction
Origin Italy
Publisher Europa Editions
My Copy paperback
First Read October 20, 2026

I Will Have Vengeance

Notes

A murder mystery / detective series, highly recommended by Helen DeWitt of all people. Maybe it's better in Italian? Not my genre of course, but I found this mostly uninteresting. Our hero is a noble detective in fascist Italy who can see dead people, in The Sixth Sense sense. So it helps him solve murders! But this barely seems to influence the plot, or at least not in the first 2/3.

Noted on October 20, 2026

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