Graziella Parati, Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Language and Literature, and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
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I would like to recommend these Maurizio De Giovanni books to readers who have spent the last couple of years reading Scandinavian mystery novels. It is winter, it is cold, it is time to focus on mystery novels about southern Europe. De Giovanni is a Neapolitan author whose novels narrate Naples in the 1930s during fascism. I regularly teach fascisms and these novels have a well-developed background. The main character is Commissario Ricciardi, 30 years old and not a fascist.