Inspector Montalbano Mysteries

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 play Mimi 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 victim is Carmelo Catalanotti, a director of bourgeois dramas with a harsh reputation for the acting method he developed for his actors. Are the two deaths connected? Catalanotti scrupulously kept notes and comments on all the actors he worked with, as well as strange notebooks full of figures and dates and names. Inspector Montalbano finds all of Catalanotti's dossiers and plays, the notes on the characters, and the notes on his last drama, Dangerous Corner-the theater is where he'll find the answer. "Aglow with local color, packed with flint-dry wit…altogether transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano." "The reader is once again happily transported to Vigàta, Sicily, where Montalbano is coping, one delicious meal at a time, with two murders…Fans will miss Montalbano mightily." "Grover Gardener's accomplished narration brings alive the whole cast of characters…Gardner's pacing allows the twists and turns to unfold, both in the case and in Montalbano's personal life. Notably, Stephen Sartarelli has done an excellent job translating the work from the original Italian. He ensures that the humor is maintained, including Catarella's malapropisms, which work well in the audio format." "The blend of farce, sexual shenanigans, and strangely intense community theater intrigues as it amuses." "Montalbano's awkwardness with the opposite sex is on full comic display in his flirtation with the mysterious Antonia, complicated further by his temperamental longtime love, Livia…The late Camilleri's antepenultimate novel again combines divinely deadpan drollery with a clever puzzle."

The new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series Two deaths, the suicide of a newly laid-off worker and an unscrupulous businessman found murdered, lead Inspector Montalbano to inspect the Halcyon, a nearly abandoned mysterious ship with no passengers. "Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen."

The long-awaited last novel in the transporting and beloved New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano series Montalbano receives an early-morning phone call, but this time it's not Catarella announcing a murder, but a man called Riccardino who's dialed a wrong number and asks him when he'll be arriving at the meeting. Montalbano, in irritation, says: "In ten minutes." Shortly after, he gets another call, this one announcing the customary murder. A man has been shot and killed outside a bar in front of his three friends. It turns out to be the same man who called him. Thus begins an intricate investigation further complicated by phone calls from "the Author" in a tour de force of metafiction and Montalbano's last case. "Incisive wit colors this insightful and intriguing farewell. The sad, poetic ending is perfect." "The long-running and much-loved Salvo Montalbano series, set in Vigàta, Sicily, concludes with an astonishing, meta-infused narrative that integrates the series' creator, Camilleri himself, into the story…What follows will delight Camilleri's legions of fans, many of whom have long felt a meta-infused connection of their own with Montalbano, his friends and colleagues, and the world of Vigàta." "Camilleri's series finale busts out of the traditional mystery genre to give fans an inspiring, thoughtful, and humorous farewell to a beloved character."