Maurizio de Giovanni, detective story writer, and Raffaella Ocone, academic, will continue to explore the enduring success of detective stories and specifically those set in Naples.
Maurizio de Giovanni lives and works in Naples. In 2005, he won a writing competition for unpublished authors with a short story set in the thirties about Inspector Ricciardi; this story became the first novel in a series. The Crocodile, another best-seller, marked the beginning of a new crime-series set in present-day Naples and featuring Inspector Lojacono. De Giovanni’s books have been translated into French, Spanish and German, and are now available in English for the first time, published by Europa Editions. A television series is under way in Italy.
Raffaella Ocone is an engineer and academic. With a first degree from her native Italy and a masters and doctorate from Princeton in the US, she is an internationally known researcher in the area of the modelling of complex systems applied to the energy and petrochemical industries. Her written academic contributions are of a technical nature, but she is fascinated by crime stories and the technical precision of making them work. She has long enjoyed reading Scandinavian noir literature and then… along came Commissario Ricciardi.
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