I'm enjoying the story so far too. I'm taking my time to read it. Probably 10-20 pages a day or so. I'm in chapter 13 now.

I've noticed that Mrs. Columbo in this novel is actually written as Colombo in the original novel and film. And shouldn't Carmella be written as Carmela? I read somewhere that the name in Italian is only written with one L.

Call me a purist or whatever.