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Detective Montalbano: Episodes 25 & 26: 2 2013 "A Voice in the Night" and "A Ray of Light" 24 September 2013 Detective Montalbano: Episodes 27 & 28: 2 2016 "A Delicate Matter" and "The Mud Pyramid" 28 June 2016 Detective Montalbano: Episodes 29 & 30: 2 2017 "A Nest of Vipers" and "As Per Procedure" 27 June 2017 Detective Montalbano: Episodes 31 ...
Salvo Montalbano investigates the murder of Lapecora, a middle-aged accountant, found stabbed in the back in the lift of the building where he lived. Under questioning, the victim's widow bitterly accuses her husband's mistress, a beautiful Tunisian woman named Kherima, who vanished on the day of the murder, taking with her François, her six-year-old son.
On his way to a funeral, Montalbano's driver avoids what seems to be a suicidal chicken, making the car skid and hitting another car parked in front of a villa. The inspector leaves a note under the windshield wiper of the damaged car to warn the owner. Since his colleague complains about the blow he received, the two go to the hospital.
A grueling, relentless sun is the background to this episode: and the most fiery heat of this hottest summer month in Sicily is paralleled by the fervour and passion that inflames Montalbano. It's August, his deputy Mimì Augello had to anticipate his holidays, and Montalbano is forced to remain at Vigata, taking care of police business.
Inspector Montalbano is an engaging hero – honest, decent and loyal. He has his own way of doing things, and his superiors regard him as something of a loose cannon. One of the strengths of the novels is Montalbano's ability to navigate through a murky world, a world of shady connections and favours owed and owing, without compromising ...
Montalbano soon finds the man in a sort of pied-à-terre, killed by a shot in the face and left in an obscene position: a suitable position, since the man was a well-known womanizer and had many sexual affairs with attractive women, one of whom seems more involved than the others, Elena Sclafani.
Montalbano is investigating the mysterious bond that unites a couple and an unrelated man in the same violent death. Thanks to his unique professional insight, and perhaps even more to his feelings as a sensitive man, Montalbano successfully concludes the investigation, moving inbetween the boundaries set by the world of tradition and that of ...
Inspector Montalbano may refer to: Inspector Montalbano; Salvo Montalbano, the eponymous character in the above TV series and an earlier series of novels and short ...