The twentieth novel in the irresistible New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series
Montalbano investigates a robbery at a supermarket, a standard case that takes a spin when manager Guido Borsellino is later found hanging in his office. Was it a suicide? Inspector Montalbano and the coroner have their doubts, and further investigation leads to the director of a powerful local company.
Meanwhile, a girl is found brutally murdered in Giovanni Strangio’s apartment—Giovanni has a flawless alibi, and it’s no coincidence that Michel Strangio, president of the province, is his father. Weaving together these two crimes, Montalbano realizes that he’s in a difficult spot where political power is enmeshed with the Mafia underworld.
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“The opera buffa tone of this series plays effectively against the bursts of senseless violence…Thankfully, Montalbano always has the prospect of his next meal to keep him sane.”
— Booklist
“[A] mix of the harrowing and the humorous…particularly Montalbano’s language-butchering assistant Catarella…who could have stepped straight out of a Marx Brothers movie.”
— Publishers Weekly“Camilleri’s trusty inspector keeps things lighthearted…You can trust in his razor-sharp investigative mind even as basic skills amusingly escape him.”
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Andrea Camilleri (1925–2019) wrote the internationally bestselling Inspector Montalbano mysteries as well as historical novels. His books have been made into television shows in Italy and translated into thirty-two languages. His thirteenth Montalbano novel, The Potter’s Field, won the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger Award and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Grover Gardner (a.k.a. Tom Parker) is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.