#(con il 'bibliodetective' come da definizione in sovraccopertina - è la sua seconda storia che leggo e continua ad azzeccarci!)

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2022 in books

Last one of the books read in November!

This is another collection of detective stories - I liked four out of eight and I feel overall that I had a better time reading Una settimana in giallo, but I guess I have to expect to have different experiences of these collections considering the authors listes and how much fun they had with the theme.

Story-wise, a week-long mystery/investigation is bound to have more points of interest and to engender more satisfaction when the solution is found, rather than a night-long one! That said, my favorite stories of the bunch were:

Un regalo che solo io posso farti: set in Tuscany, with same main investigator (vicequestore, really) as the story in Una settimana in giallo, now with a three-month-old baby! I really liked the mystery plot - quick and streamlined as it had to be, cinsidering the time constraint - as well as all the little snippets of everyday life, both hers and her partner’s and the one sketched for the secondary characters; also, lots and lots of irony, always appreciated

Piano B: YAAAAAYY!! (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ the Milan killers are back and they’re as fun as the first time I’ve seen them - they appear in the Monterossi TV series (Amazon Prime) and now I’m reading the novel that the first thee episodes adapt (Questa non è una canzone d’amore) and they’re just so much fun! I loved the reference to real-life commuters’ reaction whenever there is ‘an obstacle’ that impedes the usual running of the subway - we’re always such tactful people!

Fino a che la realtà non ci separi: I loved the fact that the clues were all in books and the reason for the main death - so unlike anything you usually see in stories like these

Quota 2.050 s.l.m.: I don’t much like that Schiavone seems stuck in the character that he was at the beginning of the series (I haven’t started the books and I don’t plan to, but I watched a few episodes of the first season of the adaptation on RaiPlay/Amazon Prime) and he seems to have learnt no practicl lessons on living on the mountains - I hope that there is internal development, at least, but he seems unvaried in the two stories I’ve read; the culprits were pretty easy to guess, but there’s alwayt a final little twist that slightly changes things that I cannot help but appreciate