True Crime: Sicilian Shadows by Francesco Scanella. What happens when a seven year old boy is uprooted from his home in Surrey and moves to the heart of the Cosa Nostra in Sicily
The Crime Warp’s always been about crime fiction and thrillers – I’ve avoided “true crime” as I’ve found it is often comes across as just an excuse for lots of “ugh” and it disturbs me in a way that fiction doesn’t. However, today I’m going to break my own rule to highlight a book called Sicilian Shadows by Francesco Scanella. Scanella was born in Walton on Thames, Surrey, but at seven moved from farms and Father Thames to Mussomeli a small hillside town in Sicily, whose way of life Scanella describes as almost medieval.