The Crocodile

Description

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.

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.

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 The Naples we are plunged into in de Giovanni's vivid and astringent novel is a phantasmagoric place . . . [The novel is] rich and strange - Financial Times De Giovanni manages to conjure up the terrifying darkness at the heart of a serial killer in this chilling procedural - Publisher's Weekly A wonderfully suspenseful novel in which de Giovanni restores life to the cliche of the world-weary detective ... explores Lojacono's loneliness and vulnerability while simultaneously revealing his brilliance - Kirkus starred review