Sellerio’s anthology in yellow is back for Christmas. Last title of the year published by the publishing house, which has now become a tradition, after the death of Camilleri, which took place on July 17, 2019, the volume was not released for two years, also thanks to the Coronavirus in 2020. But in the eleven high-tension cases of the new ‘A week in yellow’, the creator of Commissario Montalbano is still present through links and references to one of his titles, a television interview or an anecdote by the Maestro, which can be found in the authors’ stories. most loved of the Sellerio house, from Antonio Manzini to Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett and from Marco Malvaldi to Francesco Recami. And then Alessandro Robecchi, Andrej Longo, Santo Piazzese, Gaetano Savatteri, Giampaolo Simi, Fabio Stassi and Simona Tanzini.
“This book has a special meaning for us.
‘A week in yellow’ is the first of our anthologies of detective stories that we publish in the absence of Camilleri, the first conceived and written after his death “, explains the editor Antonio Sellerio in the note to the book. And he says:” we thought to drag the memory of the great writer into the stories themselves, making him in some way a literary character “.
Thus, in addition to following the investigations of Petra Delicado, Rocco Schiavone, Alice Martelli, partner of Massimo del BarLume, readers can have fun recognizing and finding Camilleri’s traces and also solving puzzles. As in the case of Francesco Recami who inserts in the story ‘An enigmatic week’ a page drawn from a work by Camilleri to guess. Instead, “Giampaolo Simi’s challenge consists in camouflaging the titles of novels with Inspector Montalbano in his story; and Alessandro Robecchi, with insinuating randomness, places a certain book by a great poet in his amateur detective’s library: but it was the subject of one of Andrea Camilleri’s suggestive dramaturgical interventions! ” explains the publisher. Other times in the stories it is a book by Camilleri that happens in the hands, a TV program in which he appears.
What the eleven cases have in common, between suspenseful humor and authentic surprises, is that they all take place on the thread of a week between mysteries to be solved and the problems and satisfactions of private life. The inspector of the Barcelona Police Petra Delicado created by Alicia Gimènez-Bartlett would like in ‘Everyone wants to be beautiful’ to deal with a crime in the world of glamor for once “I don’t mean a marquise strangled in her ancestral palace”, she ventures and instead he is faced with a “depressing and bleak” story, but at least the case is resolved quickly, within a week. Rocco Schiavone, Italy’s most famous assistant superintendent, in Antonio Manzini’s ‘Confini’ tries to pass the case of a corpse found on Mont Blanc, on the Franco-Italian border, to his transalpine colleague, but the risk that his free week goes in smoke is very high. On the other hand, the psychobibliologist Vince Corso created by Fabio Stassi is on the trail of a fantastic massacre, the disappearance of the heroes of the great novels. In ‘Occhi’ by Robecchi, which carries a quote from Marilyn Monroe: “I’m not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful”, the trio Carlo Monterossi, Oscar Falcone and Agatina Cirrielli must find the unknown heir of a millionaire industrialist.
In the anthology we find, for the first time, Viola, the curious journalist of Simona Tanzini, met in the detective story ‘Do you know the summer?’, Who uses in her investigations the gift of associating colors with people. And then Andrej Longo’s young policeman Acanfora who in ‘La neve a Natale’ brings us to the atmosphere of the holidays with his mother who has to buy the capitone at the market at six in the morning. Everything seems quiet, but then a call comes: they found a body on Vesuvius. And Christmas is tinged with ferocity and pity.
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