Maurizio de Giovanni lives and works in Naples. His Commissario Ricciardi novels, including I Will Have Vengeance (Europa 2013), Blood Curse (Europa 2013), and Everyone in Their Place (Europa 2013), are bestsellers in Italy and have been published to great acclaim in French, Spanish, and German, in addition to English. He is also the author of The Crocodile (Europa 2013), a noir thriller set in contemporary Naples.