One of the most succesful Italian crime fiction writers, Maurizio de Giovanni here takes us into two seemingly unrelated crimes: a kidnapping and a burglary of a high-class apartment. A connection is not made until the inspector Lojacono, known as "The Chairman", starts to work on the case. Like all of de Giovanni's novels, Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone is set in contemporary Naples and offers an insight into the criminal underworld and the police battle in this most famous southern Italian city.
