When her boss Olivia is taken ill, Alice is sent on the work trip of a lifetime: to a villa in Sicily, to edit the autobiography of Hollywood bad boy Luther Carson. But it’s not all yachts, nightclubs and...

Montalbano is recovering from injuries sustained in his previous adventure, in the Rounding of the Mark… However a local girl is kidnapped and Montalbano is called on to the case,

This is no. 6 in the Inspector Montalbano series and it might be worth reading them in order to get the full benefit. The owner and manager of a financial enterprise disappears, and thousands of people in the Vigatá...

Montalbano opened the door to step out. But Gallo held him back, putting one hand on his arm. ‘What’s in there, Chief?’ ‘If it’s what I think, it’s something so horrific that it’ll haunt your dreams for the rest...

It’s 1943. The allied invasion of Sicily. In a lull in the fighting, a British battalion march through the summer heat into the bombed-out city of Catania, to be greeted by the women, children and old men who remain...

This is a short, powerful novel dealing with the complicities and accomodations of power within Italian politics. The story begins with a double-murder. A local pharmacist get a  death threat in the mail, cut and pasted from a newspaper. Murder...

During the tumultuous events that shook Italy in the year 1860 – the point at which the nation was unified – there was a murderous riot in the Sicilian town of Bronte on the slopes of Mount Etna. Thereafter,...

The fourth novel in Andrea Camilleri’s savagely funny, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series featuring Inspector Montalbano

“The Terracotta Dog” opens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and some dying words that lead Inspector Montalbano gives to a secret grotto in a mountain cave where two young...

When Tess Angel receives a solicitor’s letter inviting her to claim her inheritance – the Villa Sirena, perched on a clifftop in Sicily – she is stunned. Her only link to the island is through her mother, Flavia, who...