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The twenty-sixth thrilling mystery in the Inspector Montalbano series.

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The new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery seriesTwo deaths, the suicide a newly laid-off worker and an unscrupulous businessman found murdered, leads Inspector Montalbano to inspect the Halcyon, a nearly abandoned mysterious ship with no passengers.

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

‘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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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 ...

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...

Tell me everything. But most of all, tell me about the snack thief.'When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished house-cleaner whose young son steals other schoolchildren's mid-morning snacks. Bu...

Tell me the truth.''At your command, Inspector.''Why did you choose me?''Because you, as you are showing me even now, are someone who understands things.'After a cloak-and-dagger exchange with an ageing mafioso, Inspector Montalbano is left haunted by the man's dying words, which lead him to a mountainside just west of Vigàta, where he unearths two young lovers, dead fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-size terracotta dog. ...

You see, one thing is certain: Luparello died of natural causes. Officially speaking, I have no reason to be investigating.'When the body of respected and prominent engineer Silvio Luparello is discovered in the Pasture, a rubbish-strewn site brimming with drug dealers and prostitutes, the coroner's verdict is death from natural causes - refreshingly unusual for Sicily. But Inspector Salvo Montalbano of the Vigàta police force, as honest as he...

‘A ship with seven hundred migrants is coming into harbour, a lot of them children and injured . . . I’ll be out all night.’In Inspector Montalbano’s coastal town of Vigàta, all hands are on deck to help with a surge of migrants who have arrived by boat. At the heart of the action are the police – on the lookout for the people-smugglers responsible – and long night-shifts are rendering Inspector Montalbano and his officers exhausted. Then one ...

‘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

If the previous evening Sabatello’s words had merely aroused his curiosity, viewing the images had turned his curiosity into a pressing need to understand . . . Because a story like that actually touched a very specific point of the inspector’s character, which, though it might be drawn to certain judicial questions, was also, and perhaps above all, attracted to the intricate muddle that is a man’s soul.Vigàta has been selected as the filming ...