![]() ![]() ![]() 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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