![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was published in Italy in 2020 before finally appearing in English in autumn 2021. The manuscript of the novel now called Riccardino was locked away in a notary’s safe, only emerging to update the language in 2017 before being secreted away again. Perhaps with an eye on his legacy, Camilleri wrote the final mystery for his detective nearly two decades ago and kept it back as a way of ensuring the series would conclude on his terms. When Camilleri died in 2019 his loss was felt globally but Montalbano’s own adventures still have a little way to run. Of course, he’s better known in the English speaking world as the creator of one of the best-loved detectives in modern crime fiction, Inspector Salvo Montalbano. He was a major cultural figure in Italy, and in the arts across Europe. The writer Simonetta Agnello Hornby argued that Andrea Camilleri should have been put forward for the Nobel Prize. ![]()
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