Inverarity is not a Scottish village

I have been picking up Ricky Attanasio again, and I hope I shall at least complete the story I left unfinished at least two years ago. But one thing I can say with confidence: two things my story will not have - older characters who know everything - or almost everything - and withhold facts from Ricky because he's too young (or something), and one big single villain with whose defeat the story ends. As a matter of fact, much of the long-term series I envisage is the progressive discovery, by both Ricky and his father (plus a bunch of friends he will acquire along the way, a rollerskating girlfriend, and the Necromancer of Florence) of successive and increasingly dangerous nests of different kinds of evil, which will force the rather powerless Italian Ministry to develop strength or be destroyed. Ricky is going into his own native country like an explorer into the mysteries and terrors of an unknown continent.