There are such sacred monsters Andrea Camilleri – could it not be there? Moreover, in the year when the writer who for many crime writers in our country was and remains the Master will be one hundred years old. And there are also well-loved authors Maurizio de Giovanni, Antonio Manzini, Marco Malvaldi. The only foreigner in the group was Spanish Alicia Gimenez Bartlettthe one with Francesco Recami completing the six writers signed on to the series Christmas Mystery at newsstands for free with Republic from Monday 17 November, created in collaboration with Sellario.
Six volumes about fifty pages each containing six investigations of the six investigators most loved by the public: from Montalbano to Rocco Schiavonefrom Petra Delicado to Mina September, each struggling in their own way with a series of ongoing investigations between Christmas and New Year.
It starts on Monday November 17 with Special dinner From Andrea Camilleri, story taken from New Year’s Eve is yellow (2012) by the Sicilian master as commissioner Montalbanowhile chasing a dangerous fugitive, trying to arrange various invitations for New Year’s Eve. Will he be able to taste Madame Adelina’s legendary arancini for dinner?
In’Ascetic From Antonio Manzini (on newsstands Tuesday 18), taken from A year in yellow (2018) leads to an investigation into a tragic accident Rocco Schiavone – and we are with him – in a small abandoned church high up in the snow and cold of December, where only the deputy commissioner’s intuition will lead to an unexpected solution to the case.
With Princess Umberta (on newsstands Wednesday 19), Alicia Gimenez Bartlett he tells us over Christmas dinner at the Petra Delicado police station, when suddenly a mysterious message appeared on the smartphone his deputy had received during his forty years of service. This is the beginning of a complex investigation to uncover the truth about the death, and ambiguous past, of an Italian noblewoman.
Next week we start again with One day in September at Christmas From Maurizio de Giovanni, on newsstands Monday November 24, taken from Christmas gift (2013): this is the story of the birth of Mina Settembre, a social worker at a clinic in Naples’ Quartieri Spagnoli, gifted with extraordinary sensitivity and determined to protect the weak from abuse. Memorable opening: «Gelsomina Settembre has one unshakable belief: Shitty Days. He thought of them exactly like that, with capital letters: indeed, the habits that had arisen in his life had led him to identify them only by their initials, GdM, a secret acronym, a mental stamp that had to be applied to qualify them with brevity”.
In the Experience makes a difference From Marco Malvaldi (on newsstands Tuesday 25), from Christmas is yellow (2011), we found a group of older men who usually accompany dim light, intends to discuss current local events. Including vandals who overturned recycling bins at night and scattered their contents onto the street. It all started with revenge…
Finally, Wednesday 26 November it was our turn Christmas at home, story about Francesco Recami starring Andrea Consonni taken from Christmas is yellow (2011), in which on Christmas Eve, the explosion of Enrico’s toy machine gun (an unwise gift from his detective grandfather) gives rise to a series of micro-crime stories about many criminals without crimes.
