![]() He takes it all with the accepting attitude that one needs to survive in an often bleak and impoverished part of the world. ![]() The inspector is drawn into the shadowy world of Sicilian politics as he discovers affiliations made between bureaucratic adversaries, meets with promiscuous beauties, and finds corruption that might even reach into the Church. ![]() But the inspector senses that not all is as it seems and determinedly launches a full investigation.While pursuing the case, Montalbano encounters a number of bizarre and comical characters, from an elderly schoolteacher driven mad by his 80-year-old wife's "cheating" to a former classmate who's now an intellectual pimp. Hoping to avoid an embarrassing situation, Montalbano's superiors expect him to close the case quickly. When a local politician is found dead in his car, half naked, in a seedy neighborhood known for prostitution and drug trafficking, it's assumed that he died of natural causes in the middle of a sexual escapade. The Shape of Water is his first Inspector Salvo Montalbano adventure to be translated into English. ![]() Bestselling Italian author Andrea Camilleri - one of the Hound's greatest living crime writers - has built a massive international following for his sardonic Sicilian mysteries featuring a listless, dejected, nonconformist protagonist who somehow always accomplishes his duty in spite of himself. ![]()
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