ROME (Reuters) - Italian author Andrea Camilleri, who penned the acclaimed Inspector Montalbano detective novels, died on Wednesday at the age of 93, state-owned broadcaster Rai said. Camilleri spent ...

Sicily may be awash with Unesco World Heritage Sites (seven, including Mount Etna) but the unspoilt south-eastern shores of this Mediterranean island have a more contemporary appeal thanks to the ...

Camilleri's agreeable eighth contemporary police procedural featuring the crotchety but insightful Inspector Montalbano finds the Italian detective at home in Marinella enjoying the ministrations of ...

Food is the counterpoint to the grimness of violent death in Camilleri’s police procedural stories set in Sicily, for there is constant celebration of life in food When Andrea Camilleri died in 2018, ...

Sicilian author Andrea Camilleri, who died last year at age 93, published “The Shape of Water,” the first of his internationally best-selling Inspector Montalbano novels in 1994, when he was 69. “The ...

Camilleri’s 10th mystery to feature Sicilian Insp. Salvo Montalbano (after 2008’s Paper Moon) cleverly balances a compelling story line with engaging characters. Urged by his girlfriend, Livia, to ...

I ventured to Sicily many years ago. I visited Palermo, Corleone (the town depicted in “The Godfather”) and the seaside resort of Mondello. I loved the weather, the Mediterranean Sea, the people, the ...

Andrea Camilleri, the bestselling Italian author of the Inspector Montalbano crime series, has died in Rome at the age of 93. Andrea Camilleri, the bestselling Italian author of the Inspector ...

Andrea Camilleri, the Sicilian author behind the popular Inspector Montalbano television series, has died aged 93. One of Italy's best-loved writers, he had been admitted to a hospital in Rome last ...

One of Italy's best-loved writers, he had been admitted to a hospital in Rome last month after a cardiac arrest. The crime writer was best-known for his detective books starring inspector Salvo ...