In case you haven’t heard, Out with the Sunset, book #1 in my brand new Parks Pat Mysteries series was released on Friday! You can pick it up now and preorder Long Climb to the Top and Dark Water under the Bridge as well! Get a head start on this new series!
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With 28 books in the series, I feel like I should have run into Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano Mysteries before now! These are English translations of the original Italian, a series of Police Procedurals set in Sicily, full of sensory and culinary detail. Rounding the Mark is book #7 in the series. Inspector Montalbano is threatening to resign in this book, but I would assume from the fact that there are 21 more books following this one, that he never quite gets around to it! The series was apparently also adapted for Italian TV.
In this episode Montalbano is dealign with two unconnected crimes, but as he notes partway through the book, the two apparently parallel cases actually intersect and he is doing his best to understand what happened.
The person beside him didn’t answer, however, because he wasn’t doing the dead man’s float. He was actually dead. And, to judge from the way he looked, he’d been so for quite a while.
Andrea Camilleri, Rounding the Mark
Two seemingly unrelated deaths form the central mystery of Rounding the Mark. They will take Montalbano deep into a secret world of illicit trafficking in human lives, and the investigation will test the limits of his physical, psychological, and moral endurance. Disillusioned and no longer believing in the institution he serves, will he withdraw or delve deeper into his work?
