![]() The verdict is – natural causes – something that’s almost unheard of, in a region where the mafia drops body after body. And it’s exactly here that the body of the dead engineer Luparello is found. On the outskirts of Vigàta, there’s the Mannàra, an open-air brothel. The Shape of Water, like all the other novels in the series, is set in the fictional small-town Vigàta, in Sicily, which was inspired by Camilleri’s hometown Porto Empedocle, near Agrigento. Thanks to Stu, who dedicated March to Italian literature, I finally picked up the first in the series, The Shape of Water – La forma dell’acqua. ![]() After reading a few reviews recently, I realized, I was wrong and that this wasn’t a cozy series at all. I thought this was a cozy crime series and while I occasionally enjoy them, I’m rarely willing to read a whole series. I’ve been aware of him for ages, but for some reason, I never felt tempted to read his books. Camilleri was born in 1925 in Sicily, where the series is set. ![]() Andrea Camilleri is an Italian crime writer, famous for his long-standing Inspector Montalbano series. ![]()
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