"The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavor. But their discr
Inspector Montalbano is hailed as a hero after news cameras film him scaling a building, gun in hand, to capture a pair of unlikely snipers. Shortly thereafter the inspector begins to receive cryptic
When an unidentified body is found near the Sicilian town of Vigaata, Inspector Montalbano becomes involved in a case involving a missing Colombian man with family ties to a local mobster.