Moments later the all-white schooner, which looked like a hospital ship, began to pass ever so slowly before him, as if wanting to show itself off in all its beauty.The name on the prow said: Halcyon.Two deaths - the suicide of a recently fired worker and the murder of an unscrupulous businessman - lead Inspector Montalbano to the Halcyon, a mysterious ship that visits Vigàta's port each day. With very few crewmen, no passengers and a stern large enough to land a helicopter, it piques the Inspector's interest straightaway. But whilst all this is going on, a rare trip to Genoa to visit Livia ends with the Vigàtan police department in disarray and Inspector Montalbano's position as the head of the commissariat in jeopardy. It will take all of Montalbano's ingenuity - and a crash course in the demanding art of cooking - to fix the damage done.'Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today . . . Simply superb' Sunday Times