Un anno in giallo

Un anno in giallo collects 12 short stories, one for each month of the year; each author has chosen "his" month, setting there, in that time of the year, a story with "his" detective. Opening the collection with the month of January is, of course, Andrea Camilleri, the forerunner, the one who has imprinted the mystery novel with an unrepeatable mark, creating with Inspector Montalbano a character who is firmly established in the minds and hearts of his endless readers from all over the world.

Then, month after month, all the other detectives: the institutional ones like Antonio Manzini's Deputy Police Chief Schiavone, Inspector Petra Delicado with Alicia Giménez-Bartlett's Vice Fermín. The detectives by chance: the very Sicilian Saverio Lamanna and Lorenzo La Marca so similar to their authors, Gaetano Savatteri and Santo Piazzese, the bibliotherapist Vince Corso invented by Fabio Stassi, the TV author Carlo Monterossi, a character by Alessandro Robecchi, and Kati Hirschel, the bookseller from Istanbul, home of Esmahan Aykol. Finally, the choral investigators: the condominium of the railing house headed by Francesco Recami's Amedeo Consonni and Marco Malvaldi's goliardic old men of the BarLume.

Two characters make their appearance here for the first time: the lawyer Cornelia Zac, the product of Simonetta Agnello Hornby's imagination and legal profession, and the policewoman Angela Mazzola, serving in the anti-robbery section of Palermo's Police Department, the brainchild of Gian Mauro Costa. The two new detectives we become acquainted with in this anthology will soon be the protagonists of novels.

An exceptional publishing event: after a month in the company of Montalbano, a whole year with the detectives of the Sellerio house for the first time together with 12 unpublished short stories.

«The new school of the Italian giallo is Sellerio-branded. It was not born under a cabbage. It has behind it the tradition of Sciascia and Camilleri, and the infallible taste of Elvira Sellerio who knew that to give discipline to writers as maximally undisciplined as Italian writers there was no better structure than that, very solid but very elastic, of noir.»

Antonio D’Orrico, LA LETTURA – CORRIERE DELLA SERA

«Praise to the publishers who don't just look in the mail receipt but bring books to life - to the thoroughbreds of the stable of mystery writers from Camilleri to Giménez-Bartlett, via Malvaldi, Recami, Costa, Manzini...»

Luciano Genta, TTL – LA STAMPA

Gaetano Savatteri

Fabio Stassi

Antonio Manzini

Gaetano Savatteri was born in Milan in 1964 and lives in Rome.
He is a journalist and writer.
He began his journalistic career at Giornale di Sicilia, then moved to Rome where he collaborates with Tg3 and Tg5.
His books include La congiura dei loquaci (Sellerio, 2000), La ferita di Vishinskij (Sellerio, 2003), I Siciliani (Laterza, 2005), Gli uomini che non si voltano (Sellerio, 2006), La volata di Calò (Sellerio, 2008), Uno per tutti (Sellerio, 2008), I Ragazzi di Regalpetra (Rizzoli, 2009), Strani Nostrani. Storie di Siciliani fuori dal comune (Novantacento, 2010), La fabbrica delle stelle (Sellerio, 2016), Non c'è più la Sicilia di una volta (Laterza, 2017), La congiura dei loquaci (Sellerio, 2017), Il delitto di Kolymbetra (Sellerio, 2018), Il lusso della giovinezza (Sellerio, 2020), Quattro indagini a Màkari (Sellerio, 2021) and I colpevoli sono matti (Sellerio, 2022). In 2022 he edited, also for Sellerio, the volume L'isola nuova. Trent’anni di scritture in Sicilia. He has also published several short stories in anthologies published by Sellerio.
He has published essays and surveys on Cosa Nostra.
In November 2015, the novel of the same name Uno per tutti was made into a film directed by Mimmo Calopresti.

In 2021, the TV series Màkari starring Claudio Gioè, based on the novels and short stories featuring journalist and investigator Saverio Lamanna, premiered on Rai 1 in prime time. The series has met with great critical and audience success and reached its third season in 2024.

Fabio Stassi was born in Rome in 1962. He is a librarian at La Sapienza University.
He has published for Minimum fax È finito il nostro carnevale (2007), La rivincita di Capablanca (2008), Il libro dei personaggi letterari. From the postwar period to today (2015) and Con in bocca il sapore del mondo (2018).

With Sellerio he has published: L'ultimo ballo di Charlot, translated into nineteen languages (2012, Premio Selezione Campiello 2013, Premio Sciascia Racalmare, Premio Caffè Corretto Città di Cave, Premio Alassio Centolibri), Come un respiro interrotto (2014), a contribution in the anthology Articolo 1. Racconti sul lavoro (2009), Fumisteria (2015, formerly Premio Vittorini for best debut), Angelica e le comete (2017), Mastro Geppetto (2021, Premio Dessì 2022, Premio Benedetto Croce 2022, Premio Stresa 2022) and the "discourse" on the therapeutic power of Dante's verses E d'ogni male mi guarisce un bel verso (2023); and also novels starring bibliotherapist Vince Corso, La lettrice scomparsa (2016, Scerbanenco Prize), Ogni coincidenza ha un’anima (2018), Uccido chi voglio (2020), Notturno francese (2023). He also edited the Italian edition of Curarsi con i libri. Rimedi letterari per ogni malanno (2013, 2016) and Crescere con i libri. Rimedi letterari per mantenere i bambini sani, saggi e felici (2017).

Antonio Manzini was born in Rome in 1964.
He is an actor, screenwriter and writer.
He graduated from the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art in Rome in 1988.
He has written screenplays for Alex Infascelli (Il siero della vanità, 2004) and Gabriele Salvatores (Come Dio comanda, 2008).
He is the television author of Il delitto di Via poma (directed by Roberto Faenza), numerous episodes of Squadra Antimafia and Il XII apostolo.
He was editor and screenwriter of the series Benvenuti a tavola 2 and Buscetta boss dei due mondi. In 2016, he directed his first film Cristian e Palletta contro tutti.
In 2005 he published his first novel: Sangue Marcio (Fazi editore), followed by La giostra dei criceti (Einaudi, 2007, reissued by Sellerio, 2017) and the short stories: Il mio tesoro and Giochiamo, with Niccolò Ammaniti (published in Crimini and in Il momento è delicato, Einaudi).
For Sellerio, he has published the novels in the successful series of Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone: Pista nera (2013), La costola di Adamo (2014), Non è stagione (2014), Era di maggio (2015) and 7-7-2007 (2016), Cinque indagini romane per Rocco Schiavone (2016), Pulvis et umbra (2017), Fate il vostro gioco (2018), Rien ne va plus (2019), Ah l'amore l'amore (2020) Vecchie conoscenze (2021) and Le ossa parlano (2022). From these novels is based the TV series Rocco Schiavone, on air on Rai 2 since November 2016, of which Antonio Manzini is scriptwriter together with Maurizio Careddu.
Also for Sellerio he published Sull'orlo del precipizio (2015), several short stories later collected in the anthology L'anello mancante (2018), Ogni riferimento è puramente casuale (2019), Gli ultimi giorni di quiete (2020), La mala erba (2022), Elp (2023) and Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l’amico misteriosamente scomparso in Sud America? (2023).
For Chiarelettere he published Orfani bianchi (2016).
His novels have been translated in several countries.

His latest novel is Tutti i particolari in cronaca (Mondadori, 2024).