Book description
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 flavour. But their discreet trade is
upset when two employees of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company
discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello, one of the local movers
and shakers, apparently deceased
in flagrante
at the Pasture. The coroner's verdict is death from natural causes -
refreshingly unusual for Sicily.
But Inspector Salvo Montalbano, as honest as he is streetwise and as
scathing to fools and villains as he is compassionate to their victims,
is not ready to close the case - even though he's being pressured by
Vigata's police chief, judge, and bishop.
Picking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption,
delicious meals, vendetta firepower, and carefully planted false clues,
Montalbano can be relied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of
the matter. Andrea Camilleri is one of Italy’s most famous
contemporary writers. The Montalbano mysteries have been best-sellers
all over Europe. He lives in Rome.
Stephen Sartarelli is a poet and translator. He lives in France.
