Riccardino

By Andrea Camilleri

Book Overview

The long-awaited last novel in the transporting and beloved New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano series

"At eighty, I foresaw Montalbano's departure from the scene, I got the idea and I didn't let it slip away. So I found myself writing this novel which is the final chapter; the last book in the series. And I sent it to my publisher saying to keep it in a drawer and to publish it only when I am gone." -Andrea Camilleri

Montalbano receives an early-morning phone call, but this time it's not Catarella announcing a murder, but a man called Riccardino who's dialed a wrong number and asks him when he'll be arriving at the meeting. Montalbano, in irritation, says: "In ten minutes." Shortly after, he gets another call, this one announcing the customary murder. A man has been shot and killed outside a bar in front of his three friends. It turns out to be the same man who called him.

Thus begins an intricate investigation further complicated by phone calls from "the Author" in tour de force of metafiction and Montalbano's last case.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143136798
• ISBN13: 9780143136798
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Just awful

This book was so bad I didn't even finish it. I've been a fan of Andrea Camilleri for years, and although he slipped a little bit as he aged, it wasn't all that much, and I still bought and enjoyed his books both in Italian and English. Not so with 'Riccardino.' It was one of the worst books I've ever tried to read.