Helena Schwarz Boeken

Book Three of the Commissario Ricciardi Series 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. We are in Naples, 1931. Together with his indefatigable partner, Brigadier Maione, Ricciardi is investigating the death of the beautiful and mysterious Duchess of Camparino, whose connections to privledged 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.

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 all that horror and suffering has hollowed him out emotionally. He drinks and doesn’t sleep. Other than his loyal partner Brigadier Maione he has no friends. Naples, 1931. In a working class apartment in the Sanita’ neighborhood an elderly woman by the name of Carmela Calise has been beaten to death. When Ricciardi and Maione arrive at the scene they start asking the neighbors questions. No one wants to talk but slowly a few interesting facts slip out. Carmela Calise was moonlighting as a fortuneteller and moneylender. In her decrepit apartment she would receive clients, among them some of the city’s rich and powerful, predicting their futures in such a way as to manipulate and deceive. If economic ruin lurked in their futures, Calise was happy to help. For a price, of course. She had many enemies, those indebted to her, manipulated by her lies, disappointed by her prophesies or destroyed by her machinations. Murder suspects in this atmospheric thriller abound and Commissario Ricciardi, one of the most original and intriguing investigators in contemporary crime fiction, will have his work cut out for him.

Neapel, Anfang der dreißiger Jahre. Commissario Ricciardi, ein intelligenter, melancholischer Einzelgänger aus reichem Elternhaus, besitzt eine Gabe, die sein Schicksal bestimmt: Er hört die letzten Gedanken von Ermordeten, sieht sie gefangen im Augenblick ihres Todes. So auch, als Arnaldo Vezzi, der Star der Opernszene, der Lieblingstenor des Duce, ermordet aufgefunden wird … - Erster Teil einer Serie um den charismatischen Commissario Ricciardi - Für Leser von Michael Dibdin, Donna Leon und Nicolas Remin - Neapel in den dreißiger Jahren

Was sagt die Bibel über die Rolle von Mann und Frau? Und was steht zwischen den Zeilen? Die Autorin beleuchtet die Rechte der Frau und die Bedeutung der Sexualität und räumt dabei mit manchem Vorurteil auf. Eine spannende Lektüre für alle, die sich für das Leben zur Zeit der Bibel interessieren.

Dieses Buch bietet eine Übersicht der gesamten Geschichte Afghanistans. Angefangen mit der prähistorischen Zeit bis zu den Ereignissen des Jahres 2002. Der zweite Teil des Buches gibt wertvolle Informationen über die Landschaft, das Klima und die dort ansässigen Bevölkerungsschichten; über wirtschaftliche und soziale Voraussetzungen, gefolgt von einer religionshistorischen Studie. Die Glanzzeiten dieser Region werden genauso beleuchtet wie die Missstände und die Zeiten des Verfalls von Kultur und Lebensqualität, alles in der Hoffnung ein möglichst vollständiges Bild vermitteln und Ursachen aufzeigen zu können.