A journey through Italian crime fiction: Sicily (part one)

Of course, Sicily is not a city, but when it comes to crime fiction it is best to consider it as a whole, explains Dr Barbara Pezzotti.

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Our guide in this "Italian journey", Dr Barbara Pezzotti, takes us to Sicily, where we meet a fundamental writer: Leonardo Sciascia.

Reading list about Sicily (part one)

• Leonardo Sciascia. Il giorno della civetta (1961). Milano: Adelphi, 1993.
• Leonardo Sciascia. A ciascuno il suo (1966). Torino: Einaudi, 1979.
• Leonardo Sciascia. Il cavaliere e la morte. Milano: Adelphi, 1988.

Barbara Pezzotti is a Monash University lecturer and the author of the book The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey, published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in 2012.

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