"Two deaths lead Inspector Montalbano into investigations of corruption and power"-- The robbery at a supermarket is a standard case-- until manager Guido Borsellino is later found hanging in his office. The inspector and the coroner have their doubts that it was suicide, 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...

Sicily, 1920s. As socialists who run successful farms and businesses, the Sacco brothers are a prime target of the local Mafia's extortion racket. When their father receives an anonymous letter demanding protection money, he goes to the police. But what can they do with such a complaint? No one in the village has ever dared denounce the Mafia before. From that moment on, the Sacco brothers must defend themselves as they face an escalating war against...

"Hay una miríada de relatos en la tradición judía, y en parte también en la musulmana, que describe a Caín de forma diferente a la versión bíblica, y yo, que al fin y al cabo no soy más que un cuentacuentos, he trabajado sobre esos relatos alternativos". En esta obra, Andrea Camilleri ofrece una visión insólita y sorprendente del primer homicida de la historia. Se trata de un Caín inventor del concepto de elección, y por tanto de la idea...

On a gloomy morning in Vigàta, a call from Fazio rouses Inspector Montalbano from a nightmare. A man called Giugiù Nicotra has been found dead in the skeletal workings of a construction site--a place now entombed by a sea of mud from recent days of rain and floods. Shot in the back, he had fled into a water supply system tunnel. The investigation gets off to a slow start, but all the evidence points to the world of construction and public contracts,...

Primero de un ciclo de cuatro volúmenes de relatos ambientados en el imaginario pueblo siciliano de Vigàta, también escenario de las aventuras del célebre comisario Montalbano, este libro recoge ocho historias tan perfectas que cada una puede leerse como una pequeña novela. En ellas, Andrea Camilleri vuelve a sus orígenes y despliega toda la complejidad del esperpéntico y variopinto inventario humano que encierra una Sicilia imaginada pero,...

The first English translation of the best-selling international mystery series follows Sicilian detective Inspector Montalbano as he investigates the suspicious death of an engineer who had made a name for himself in a small town.

With their dark sophistication and dry humor, Andrea Camilleri's classic crime novels continue to win more and more fans in America. The latest installment of the popular mystery series finds the moody Inspector Montalbano further beset by the existential questions that have been plaguing him of late. But he doesn't have much time to wax philosophical before the gruesome murder of a man-shot at point-blank range in the face with his pants down-commands...

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...

Set on the Sicilian coast, a collection of eight short stories featuring the young Inspector Montalbano. In 1980s Vigata, a restless Inspector Montalbano brings his brash yet clear-sighted investigative style to eight enthralling cases. Death at Sea finds the detective seeking to bring justice to crimes-from those involving jilted lovers and deadly family affairs to an encounter featuring the assassination attempt against the Pope to murders in unexpected...