Four investigative adventures with Saverio Lamanna and Peppe Piccionello, the two Sicilian amateur detectives protagonists of “Màkari.” The TV series, directed by Michele Soavi, after the success of the first season, returns in February 2022 with new episodes on Rai 1, starring Claudio Gioè and Domenico Centamore as the Laurel and Hardy pair of the Italian detective story.

“Brilliant, enjoyable, with an enviable vitality, Savatteri is a champion of self-mockery.” Antonio D’Orrico, la Lettura – Corriere della Sera

The unlikely island investigators imagined by Gaetano Savatteri always inside strange situations and somewhat paradoxical yet not unusual encounters in Sicily, slip into the mystery plot almost unintentionally, but always driven by curiosity to enter the deepest secrets of their land. Beyond the investigation the real purpose of the narrative is to draw a merry-go-round of human characters in their unrepeatable originality. And in support of this observing, investigating and representing life, Savatteri plays the card of irony, an unparalleled champion of a sarcasm that he uses as an antidote against clichés about Sicily and the island’s rhetoric.

Saverio Lamanna, an unemployed journalist and inveterate cold-bloodedness, and Peppe Piccionello, a rocky Sicilian, the one from Màkari, flip-flops, underwear and T-shirt with slogans made in Sicily. Alongside the two, closes a triangle of nosy hounds, Suleima, Marilù’s maid from Bassano del Grappa, Saverio’s flame and now back in the North to work as an architect.

Investigation after investigation, Saverio Peppe and Suleima, with farcical pace, go back up the thread of four cases previously released in themed anthologies and which here, brought together under the same cover, read almost like a single novel in which one laughs nonstop, is sometimes moved, and always under the comic veil human misery is disguised.