The return of a bookseller with a passion for thrillers, an unlikely yet witty mystery solver, along with his two black cats. " The Cat Factor ," the third volume in the cozy mystery series by Piergiorgio Pulixi, is being published today in the "Lucciole" series by Marsilio . now moving the setting from the capital to the wild Serpentara.
The publication is accompanied by a presentation tour on the island, promoted as part of the Éntula festival: the first stop is today in Cagliari , from 6.30pm at the Centro La Vetreria – where the journalist Alessandra Ghiani will be in conversation with the author – continuing then towards San Pietro a Mare di Valledoria next Monday 21st at 7pm , in the company of his colleague Cristiano Idini , and the Ex Ma.Ter of Sassari the following day at 9pm , this time in conversation with Roberto Uzzau , to finally end on Wednesday 23rd in Villagrande Strisaili , from 6pm in Piazza di Chiesa in a conversation with the publicist Giusy Ferreli .
Conceived by Pulixi as a lighter genre than the dark, intricate noir novels for which he is known by readers, the adventures of the "almost by accident" bookseller Marzio Montecristo begin in 2023 with "The Black Cats' Bookshop ", with a sequel in " If Cats Could Talk " (2025). After leaving his teaching post, Montecristo runs the small bookshop specializing in crime novels " Les Chats Noirs " in Cagliari, spending his working days with his two cats and , who appeared one day and never left, and with his young collaborator of Eritrean origins , as well as with the reading group " ", a close-knit and heterogeneous team of mystery fanatics.
