The inspector Giorgio Garbo, thirty -three -year -old protagonist of “Lipari yellow” (editions and/or), new novel by Francesco Musolinojournalist and writer from Messina who directly from the Sardinian sea of “Mosa Mare” (his first yellow, editions and/or, selection of the Scerbanenco Prize) and after the debut in the fiction with “The moment before” (Rizzoli) followed by “The incredible curiosities of Sicily” (Newton Compton) and by the book for children “Myths and stories of the sea” (the new junior frontier), is still measured with a Mediterranean yellow.
On a night at the end of August, in the splendid, and disturbing, water space of the Faraglioni, the corpse of a man with ebony leather emerges, terrifying a young couple who arrived there to find some intimacy. To deny that “both Lipari never happens, nothing happens”, as the peaceful commissioner Laganà reminiscent of as soon as he takes service in the new police station of Lipari-Isole Aeolian, the first of the island in narrative fiction. A shadow that Laganà is afraid of the glossy postcard image of the Aeolian, ruin the holidays to thousands of tourists and turn off the euphoria for the nearby feast of San Bartolo which establishes the end of the “season”: a holiday frenzy, opposite to the softness of the islanders, in which Garbo, called “u milanisi”, landed on the island with moccasins and elegant. “Golden Boy” who loves the mountain, mulled wine, huts and even fog, warns a waste that struggles to accept. September is not far away but the oppressive and almost irreverent heat that seems to weigh on the skin and even on thoughts does not detract from the inspector’s commitment, in spite of those who would like to surrender to the idea that that poor nameless body and that no one is looking for is “only” that of some invisible migrant drowned in the Mediterranean tomb. But the young inspector, already characterized by Musolino with his well -kept mustaches, the hair back, the cigar and a serious and reserved nature (but ready to take in front of the injustices), loves to seek the crack in situations on which to leverage: observing everything, as advised to the humorale vice -inspector Milena Russo. He knows well that “we do everything to ignore how much the reality sucks, until we have to deal with it”, and warns dissonances, therefore he understands that they have to go to the bottom: things are not as they seem, and a parallel investigation, he resolved quickly, and of which he is a victim for a case of Cyberstalking Fatimah, a young Italian-Marocchin influencer, he proves to be intertwined. to the other.
Thus, thanks to his rational aptitude for the deduction, with the help of the coroner, Professor Luigi Raffa (a “Camillerian” character), of the commander of the Coast Guard (Nina Vitale-Berg, daughter of Achille Vitale of “Mare moved”, because the stories and books are talking about each other), the precious presence of Fatimah and the collaboration of the Russian deputy inspector and the Rossa Reporter, Rossa Cincotta, The inspector resolves the case that shows how no place is innocent and the sea can be a ruthless mirror of deceptions and trafficking.
While trying to keep their demons at bay (all the distance of the past are close, a thousand kilometers away from Milan), Garbo seems to make peace with the island and also with his sea pain. There is not only the darkness of the nights and nightmares, there is not only the “rough sea”, there is the blue to chase for other investigations again.