An Inspector Montalbano Mystery

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A seemingly blameless man is killed, and as Montalbano and crew investigate, they discover how nasty the victim was, and how large the crowd of suspects is.

"Two deaths lead Inspector Montalbano into investigations of corruption and power in the twentieth installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Montalbano investigates a robbery at a supermarket, a standard case that takes a spin when manager Guido Borsellino is later found hanging in his office. Was it a suicide? The inspector and the coroner have their doubts, 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 alibi, and it's no coincidence that Michele Strangio, president of the province, is his father. Weaving together these two crimes, Montalbano realizes that he's in a difficult spot where political power is enmeshed with the mafia underworld."--

When Inspector Montalbano falls under the charms of beautiful gallery owner Marian, his longtime relationship with Livia comes under threat. Meanwhile, he is also troubled by a strange dream as three crimes demand his attention: the assault and robbery of a wealthy merchant's young wife, shady art deals, and a search for arms traffickers that leads him deep into the countryside, where the investigation takes a tragic turn.

Montalbano investigates a knifing in an elevator, and finds it bleeding over into a machine-gunning at sea.

Montalbano’s had enough.

Giuseppe Fazio unknowingly gets entangled in a messy affair. When he disappears, Montalbano and the rest of the crew get involved too, and, like retrieving a week-old corpse from the bottom of a well, the closer they get to resolution the messier the affair gets.

Montalbano and crew get involved with a long ago incident unearthed by a set of cryptic Super-8 film reels, and a modern incident involving crytpo-terrorists brandishing guns at a high school.

"Italy's favorite detective, Inspector Montalbano, uncovers corruption and mafia ties in the world of construction and public spending when he investigates the murder of a man 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"-- On a gloomy morning in Vigàta, Giugiù Nicotra is 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, a world just as slimy and impenetrable as mud. As he wades through a world in which construction firms and public officials thrive, Montalbano is obsessed by one thought: that by going to die in the tunnel, Nicotra had been trying to communicate something.

There's a murder, but Montalbano seems more interested in funny business around a yacht. Meanwhile, the commissioner launches an all-out bureaucratic assault on Montalbano and crew. Eventually everything gets wrapped up in a sea-going meeting of drug lords.