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 director infamous for the acting method he developed in which he digs into the psyche of his cast to unleash their inner talent - a traumatic experience for all.Are the two deaths connected? Catalanotti scrupulously kept notes and comments on all of the actors he worked with, as well as strange notebooks full of figures, dates and names, so it shouldn't be too hard for Inspector Montalbano to find an actor or two harbouring a grievance . . .'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