The Bottom of Your Heart

The Inferno for Commissario Ricciardi

By: Maurizio de Giovanni

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

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 passions.

In the world Ricciardi and Maione are about to enter, infidelity appears inextricable from the most joyful expressions of love, and this interdependence sows doubt and uncertainty in both men, compromising their own attempts at love. Ricciardi is one of the most intriguing and unique figures to appear in crime fiction in recent years. He possesses the dubious gift of being able to see and hear the last seconds in the lives of those who have suffered a violent death. This ability makes him an unusually effective investigator but plagues him and renders human relationships almost impossible. He is a classic noir hero and the cursed son of a city that, for all its Mediterranean splendor, is a perfect noir city.

In this new installment in the Commissario Ricciardi series, Maurizio de Giovanni creates a large cast of unforgettable characters and a compelling, suspenseful plot that demonstrates once more why he is considered one of the best crime writers working today.

©2015 Maurizio de Giovanni (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

More please

Just finished the most recent Audible edition of The Bottom of Your Heart and I beg you - PLEASE don’t leave it here. Each book is so well written with multiple characters well developed and such interesting story lines all set in such an interesting historical period of Italy’s and the world’s history. I can imagine far more to come.
Bravo!!

Please find a better narrator!

What disappointed you about The Bottom of Your Heart?

Please find a better narrator who can pronounce Italian and who doesn't make every female sound awful!

How did the narrator detract from the book?

He has no understanding of Italian pronunciation or character in any way