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Let’s Go… Sicily

When Andrea Camilleri died in July, he left behind him a couple of dozen novels featuring the ironic and restless Inspector Salvo Montalbano and his investigations in Vigata. The fictional Baroque town is somewhere in Sicily, the motherland of Cosa Nostra and Camilleri’s home turf. It’s also the place, notes Montalbano in The Pyramid of Mud (2018), where it’s believed that adultery.

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