Im 42 Maigret Is Afraid

“You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive entirely magical series set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen...transporting. Long live Camilleri and long live Montalbano.” —A.J. Finn 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Inspector Montalbano uncovers corruption and mafia ties in the world of construction and contracts On a gloomy morning in Vigàta a call from Fazio rouses Inspector Montalbano from a nightmare. A man called Giugiù Nicotra has been found dead in the skeletal workings of a construction site a place now entombed by a sea of mud from recent days of rain and floods. Shot in the back he had fled into a water supply system tunnel. The investigation gets off to a slow start but all the evidence points to the world of construction and public contracts a world just as slimy and impenetrable as mud. As he wades through a world in which construction firms and public officials thrive Montalbano is obsessed by one thought that by going to die in the tunnel Nicotra had been trying to communicate something.