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The tenth novel in Camilleri's engrossing mystery series featuring the irrepressible Inspector Montalbano.

Another exciting and humorous Sicilian investigation featuring the inimitable Inspector Montalbano.

Im Kommissariat des sizilianischen Küstenörtchens Vigàta gibt eine ungewöhnliche Entführung Rätsel auf: Ein vermummter Täter hat nacheinander zwei weibliche Bankangestellte überfallen, betäubt und kurz darauf unversehrt freigelassen. Dann erfährt Commissario Montalbano, dass ein junger Unternehmer nach einer Urlaubsreise mit seiner großen Liebe vermisst wird. Stehen die Ereignisse in Zusammenhang? Schon bald kommt Montalbano einem perfiden Täu...

Ein heftiger Regenschauer reißt Commissario Montalbano aus einem wohligen Traum, in dem er mit seiner Verlobten Livia sorglos durch einen paradiesischen Wald wandelte. Auch im Kommissariat von Vigàta zeigt sich der Tag eher nüchtern: Der angesehene Buchhalter Cosimo Barletta wurde tot in seiner Strandvilla aufgefunden. Die Ermittlungen lassen abgründige Familiengeheimnisse ahnen, und Montalbano fühlt sich schon bald an ein furioses Schlangenne...

Im Kommissariat des sizilianischen Küstenörtchens Vigàta gibt eine ungewöhnliche Entführung Rätsel auf: Ein vermummter Täter hat nacheinander zwei weibliche Bankangestellte überfallen, betäubt und kurz darauf unversehrt freigelassen. Dann erfährt Commissario Montalbano, dass ein junger Unternehmer nach einer Urlaubsreise mit seiner großen Liebe vermisst wird. Stehen die Ereignisse in Zusammenhang? Schon bald kommt Montalbano einem perfiden Täu...

Der Holzhändler Filippo Genuardi, genannt Pippo, begeistert sich für alles Neue: Er besitzt einen Phonographen Edison und einen motorisierten Vierräder, den er aus Paris kommen ließ. Und nun möchte er ein Telefon - eine Sensation im Sizilien des Jahres 1891.Pippos Antrag ist dem Präfekten suspekt. Wozu braucht ein Holzhändler ein Telefon? Aber Pippo ist nicht auf den Kopf gefallen, er weiß, wie die Dinge funktionieren auf seiner Insel. Er trif...

‘Montalbano’s colleagues, chance encounters, Sicilian mores, even the contents of his fridge are described with the wit and gusto that make this narrator the best company in crime fiction today’ Guardian

That's a rather dangerous method, ' Montalbano observed . . . Inspector Montalbano's colleague, Mimì Augello, is visiting his lover when the woman's husband unexpectedly returns home. Mimì quickly climbs out of the window and into the apartment below, but this only takes him from one danger to another, as in the darkness he sees a dead body lying across the bed.Before long, another body is found. The second victim is Carmelo Catalanotti, a dir...

A brother, ' he said.Jesus Christ! Now where'd this brother come from? Whose brother? Montalbano had known from the start that between all the brothers, uncles, in-laws, nephews and nieces, this case was going to drive him crazy.Chief Inspector Montalbano is on enforced sick-leave. But when a local girl goes mysteriously missing, the whole community takes an interest in the case. Why are the kidnappers so sure that the girl's impoverished fath...

He began swimming in slow, broad strokes . . . In a fraction of a second, Montalbano realized he'd struck a human foot. Somebody else was floating right beside him, and he hadn't noticed. 'Excuse me, ' he said hastily. The person beside him didn't answer, because he wasn't doing the dead man's float. He was actually dead . . .Inspector Salvo Montalbano is considering retirement. Everything - the government, the world - seems to be going to the...

For heaven's sake, please break down the door.''Signorina, I cannot, under any circumstances . . .'She looked at him. That was enough. With a single shoulder-thrust, Montalbano sent the plywood door flying. He went inside, but before he had even felt for the light switch, he yelled: 'Don't come in!'He'd detected at once the smell of death in the room.As he gets older, Inspector Montalbano is plagued by existential questions. But he doesn't hav...

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"Nell'estate del 1995 trovai, tra vecchie carte di casa, un decreto ministeriale (che riproduco nel romanzo) per la concessione di una linea telefonica privata. Il documento presupponeva una così fitta rete di più o meno deliranti adempimenti burocratico-amministrativi da farmi venir subito voglia di scriverci sopra una storia di fantasia (l'ho terminata nel marzo del 1997). La concessione risale al 1892... Nei limiti del poss...

It was the phrase ‘the only thing Papa filmed that year’ – the fact that a man on death’s doorstep would make the effort to film a patch of wall – that really sparked Montalbano’s curiosity . . .When Inspector Montalbano’s town of Vigàta is selected as the filming location for a new movie set in the 1950s, the director asks locals to dig out old photographs from that time. And that is how engineer Ernesto Sabatello stumbles upon a mystery. In ...

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In the new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series, Montalbano finds his answers to a murder in a theatrical playMimi Augello is visiting his lover when the woman's husband unexpectedly returns to the apartment, he climbs out the window and into the downstairs apartment, but one danger leads to another. In the dark he sees a body lying on the bed. Shortly after, another body is found, and the vi...

Montalbano learned how hard it was to put on a wetsuit while in a dinghy speeding over a sea that wasn't exactly calm. Mimì, at the helm, looked tense and worried.'Getting seasick?' the inspector asked him at one point.'No. Just sick of myself.''Why?''Because every now and then I realize what a stupid shit I am to go along with some of your brilliant ideas.'When an angry octogenarian holds a terrified and lovelorn secretary at gunpoint, Inspec...

Maybe a phrase, a line, a hint somewhere would reveal a reason, any reason, for the elderly couple's disappearance . . .A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building early one morning, and an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari - two seemingly unrelated cases for Inspector Montalbano to solve amid the daily complications of life at Vigàta police headquarters.But when Mont...

Don't you ever let go? she seemed to be asking. Montalbano, who understood what the woman's eyes were saying to him, smiled and threw up his hands in a gesture of resignation, as if to say: It's my job.Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her ageing husband, a famous doctor, a shy admirer, now disappeared, an antiques-dealing lover f...