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Maurizio de Giovanni's Commissario Ricciardi books mostly go on sale for $2.99, but now here is one for sale for $0.99 in the US, and discountable at Kobo US. I've been wanting to try this series, so hopefully it isn't too bad to start with the third book ...

Everyone in Their Place: The Summer of Commissario Ricciardi
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079MH5V5Y
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/eve...-their-place-7

Spoiler:

Third in “a superb historical series set in Fascist Italy . . . and featuring one of the most melancholy detectives in European noir crime fiction (The New York Times Book Review).

Commissario Ricciardi has visions. He sees and hears the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths. It is both a gift and a curse. It has helped him become one of the most acute and successful homicide detectives in the Naples police force. But the horror and suffering he has seen has hollowed him out emotionally. He drinks too much and sleeps too little. His love life is a shamble. Other than his loyal partner, Brigadier Maione, he has no friends.

Naples, 1931. Together with Brigadier Maione, Ricciardi is investigating the death of the beautiful and mysterious Duchess of Camparino, whose connections to privileged Neapolitan social circles and the local fascist elite make the case a powder keg waiting to explode. As Benito Mussolini’s state visit to Naples looms and authorities frantically seek to clean up the city’s image, Ricciardi will stop at nothing to find the duchess’s killer.