title: Blood Curse: The Springtime of Commissario Ricciardi
author: Maurizio de Giovanni
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   **Good Blood**  
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  **Aaron Elkins**  
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  **PROLOGUE**  
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  The Village of Stresa, Lake Maggiore, Italy,
  
  September 7, 1960
  
  Domenico de Grazia was a gentleman of the old school, a refined and courtly
  patrician, a man of breeding, poised and self-assured. Many of the simpler
  folk, out of respect for his lineage and his impeccable bearing, still spoke
  of him as il conte, the count, although the nobility had been abolished more
  than fifteen years before. And some took their hats off when he passed, but
  this was a practice he gently discouraged.
  
  Despite his reputation, Domenico kne