On Tuesday at 6.30 pm in via Tommaseo, in front of the Liberitutti bookshop, the first presentation of the collection of crime/noir stories entitled ‘Giallo come il Golfo’ will be held. Twelve stories set in the villages of our gulf (and in the neighborhoods of the city) from Tellaro to Portovenere. There are also twelve authors, six women and six men, who set their narrative, each choosing a month of the year.
The authors are Simona Albano, Massimo Ansaldo, Marco Della Croce, Alessandro Ebuli, Raffaella Ferrari, Patrizia Fiaschi, Maria Grazia Innocenti, Vanessa Isoppo, Beppe Mecconi, Corrado Pelagotti, Susanna Raule, Marco Ursano. “By organizing some literary reviews, I realized that many authors from La Spezia prefer the noir or crime genre, I thought it would be interesting and fun to ask some of them to write a story set in our splendid places – explains Beppe Mecconi who edited it collection -. I called Marco and Corrado to talk to them about the idea and, sitting at a table in a bar, we had fun. We thought about who else to involve, how many pages each would have to write… Equalizing women and men came naturally. At the end of the meeting we were absolutely convinced about which colleagues to involve, we realized there that we had reached twelve, and naturally we thought about the months of the year. In the following days I contacted everyone and everyone was enthusiastic about the proposal. I then spoke to the publisher with whom I work and who liked the idea and so, after a few months of work the volume is ready and will be released by Gammarò editions on 18/7.”
On the back cover we read: “Twelve places in search of an author, twelve months in search of a voice. But also twelve pens who have painted ‘our’ places in various shades of yellow, too beautiful not to be used to set stories of this color… every month of the year is the setting for stories that move through the towns and villages streets of the Gulf, and which those who live there will have no difficulty recognizing.” The preface is by Marco Buticchi who writes “… in my memory, none of the ‘greats’ of noir has ever set a mystery in the Gulf of La Spezia. Yet I would have liked to see Maigret delve into the alleys of Portovenere or Poirot solve a case in the castle of Lerici. Here, to fill this gap, twelve friends of mine arrive, who, as in love with these flashes as so many, have decided to try their hand at a yellow setting in the Gulf of La Spezia…”
