Km 123, by Andrea Camilleri

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A new novel by Andrea Camilleri You can never label it with the typical commercial resource like "the return of ..." because the truth is that Camilleri never finishes leaving.

Not even past 90 does this iconic Italian author of the black crime genre slow down. And in this new plot he invites us to enjoy a story with the scent of love entanglement, lovers filtered between marriages to break the convincing.

At least from the beginning that is the first impression. Because once Giulio was in a coma, after his accident in the kilometer 123 of what was the Via Aurelia that linked Rome with Pisa, his wife must take care of everything that surrounds her husband. Including your mobile phone.

And of course the missed call of this Ester awakens, in the tragic situation of Giulio's state, even worse omens for Giuditta, his wife. Because the mind is like that. Once plunged into the tragic, it is she, the mind that crudely reveals to us the unmistakable certainty of Murphy's fatality.

What can get worse will get worse. Premise under which, in addition to the suspicions of a lover for Guiditta, there appear testimonies that point to the attempted murder of Giulio at the time of his accident at kilometer 123.

As the matter grows more obscure around God knows than matters between hidden passions or unspeakable businesses, we need someone like Attilio Bongioanni, instinctive policeman, bloodhound loaded with the intelligence of the best investigator.

We said that Camilleri seems fireproof in his vocation as a writer. And it is better for us. Because in the end, as we get involved in extracting the truth and what can be derived from it, we enjoy that complementary analysis of the greats of the genre. Because Camilleri is still due to his world of black crime writers from the mid-XNUMXth century. And its plots continue to distill criticism, philosophy of survival, sagacity to delve into the wells of the human soul.

Thus, the entanglement of the novel's knot seems at times to take our breath away, like a thriller that concerns more human nature than the specific case of Giulio's accident.

The end of the story contains that strange climax that differentiates the greats of the genre, a climax that not only closes the case but also projects the essences of evil when it governs the human being.

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