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The Crocodile (Giuseppe Lojacono 1)
Maurizio de Giovanni
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Description for The Crocodile (Giuseppe Lojacono 1)
paperback. Transferred to Naples, Detective Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono feels that he's marking time. But when bodies of teenagers start appearing, victims of a strange and sinister killer, it soon becomes clear to Lojacono that the killings are more than Mafia hits, and that the labyrinthine streets of Naples are more deadly than he'd imagined. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 22. Weight in Grams: 274.
Transferred to Naples after a tangle with the Sicilian Mafia, Detective Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono feels that he's marking time, waiting out an awkward scandal.
But when the bloodied bodies of teenagers start appearing around the city, victims of a strange and sinister killer whom police and locals take to calling The Crocodile, it soon becomes clear to Lojacono that the killings are more than simple Mafia hits, and that the labyrinthine streets of Naples are more deadly than he'd dared imagine.
Can he catch the assassin in time to save the city's innocents?
A bestseller in Italy, The Crocodile is a dark, bloody story of murder and revenge that will grip and thrill you.
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349138893
SKU
V9780349138893
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Maurizio de Giovanni
Maurizio de Giovanni lives and works in Naples. He is the author of the bestselling Inspector Ricciardi crime series set in the 1930s. His books have been successfully translated into several languages, and a television adaptation is underway in Italy.
Reviews for The Crocodile (Giuseppe Lojacono 1)
This novel is a perfect killing machine of flesh, bone, blood and cartilage. The story of the Crocodile will make you tremble to your very soul
Donato Carrisi, internationally bestselling author of The Whisperer The Naples we are plunged into in de Giovanni's vivid and astringent novel is a phantasmagoric place . . . [The novel is] rich and strange
Barry Forshaw
Financial Times
A wonderfully suspenseful novel in which de Giovanni restores life to the cliche of the world-weary detective ... [and] explores Lojacono's loneliness and vulnerability while simultaneously revealing his brilliance
Kirkus starred review
Engaging and emotional, The Crocodile is a memorable take on revenge
Sydney Morning Herald
De Giovanni manages to conjure up the terrifying darkness at the heart of a serial killer in this chilling procedural
Publisher's Weekly
This novel is a perfect killing machine of flesh, bone, blood and cartilage. The story of the Crocodile will make you tremble to your very soul
Donato Carrisi, internationally bestselling author of The Whisperer The Naples we are plunged into in de Giovanni's vivid and astringent novel is a phantasmagoric place . . . [The novel is] rich and strange
Barry Forshaw
Financial Times
Intriguing . . . De Giovanni's tale is fast-paced
Julian Fleming
Sunday Business Post
Engaging and emotional, The Crocodile is a memorable take on revenge
Sydney Morning Herald
Donato Carrisi, internationally bestselling author of The Whisperer The Naples we are plunged into in de Giovanni's vivid and astringent novel is a phantasmagoric place . . . [The novel is] rich and strange
Barry Forshaw
Financial Times
A wonderfully suspenseful novel in which de Giovanni restores life to the cliche of the world-weary detective ... [and] explores Lojacono's loneliness and vulnerability while simultaneously revealing his brilliance
Kirkus starred review
Engaging and emotional, The Crocodile is a memorable take on revenge
Sydney Morning Herald
De Giovanni manages to conjure up the terrifying darkness at the heart of a serial killer in this chilling procedural
Publisher's Weekly
This novel is a perfect killing machine of flesh, bone, blood and cartilage. The story of the Crocodile will make you tremble to your very soul
Donato Carrisi, internationally bestselling author of The Whisperer The Naples we are plunged into in de Giovanni's vivid and astringent novel is a phantasmagoric place . . . [The novel is] rich and strange
Barry Forshaw
Financial Times
Intriguing . . . De Giovanni's tale is fast-paced
Julian Fleming
Sunday Business Post
Engaging and emotional, The Crocodile is a memorable take on revenge
Sydney Morning Herald