The Smell of the Night, the sixth mystery in the international bestselling series featuring Inspector Montalbano, brings the shady shenanigans of late twentieth-century international finance to small-town Sicily.

Half the retirees in Vigáta have invested their savings with a financial wizard who has disappeared, along with their money and a young man who worked for him. As Montalbano investigates this labyrinthine financial scam, he finds

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When a colleague extends his summer vacation, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is forced to stay in Vigàta and endure the August heat. Montalbano's long-suffering girlfriend, Livia, joins him with a friend—husband and young son in tow—to keep her company during these dog days of summer. But when the boy suddenly disappears into a narrow shaft hidden under the family's beach rental, Montalbano uncovers something terribly sinister. As the

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The moody Inspector Montalbano is further beset by the existential questions that have been plaguing him of late. But he doesn't have much time to wax philosophical before the gruesome murder of a man--shot at point-blank range in the face with his pants down--commands his attention. Add two evasive, beautiful women as prime suspects, some dirty cocaine, mysterious computer codes, and a series of threatening letters, and things soon get very complicated...

Montalbano wakes from strange dreams to find a gruesomely bludgeoned horse carcass in front of his seaside home. When his men come to investigate, the carcass disappears, leaving only a trail in the sand. Before long, two people report missing horses - Rachele, a champion equestrian, an Lo Duca, one of the richest men in Sicily. Then Montalbano's home is broken into and is ransacked and he is certain that the crimes are linked. As he negotiates the...

One night, Inspector Montalbano dreams of a stormy sea, which he knows represents unease and loss of control. The next day, a boat is found in the port of Vigata, and within it, the body of a disfigured corpse. The waterfront has also drawn in an eighty-five-foot luxury boat passengered by fifty carefree souls and a somewhat shadowy crew. They will have to stay in Vigata until the investigation is over--the man, it seems, was poisoned. However, right...

This latest installment in the Inspector Montalbano series finds Montalbano in search of his missing right-hand man. Before leaving for vacation with Livia, Montalbano witnesses a seagull doing an odd dance on the beach outside his homeand then the bird suddenly drops dead. Stopping in at his office for a quick check before heading off, he notices that Fazio is nowhere to be found and soon learns that he was last seen on the docks, secretly working...

In Treasure Hunt, Montalbano is hailed as a hero after news cameras film him scaling a building-- gun in hand-- to capture a pair of unlikely snipers. Shortly after, the inspector begins to receive cryptic messages in verse from someone challenging him to go on a 'treasure hunt.' Intrigued, he accepts, treating the messages as amusing riddles-- until they take a dangerous turn.

Der Todestanz einer Möwe als Vorbote düsterer Ereignisse? Leider nur zu wahr, denn kurze Zeit später erreicht Commissario Montalbano die Nachricht vom Verschwinden Fazios, seines wichtigsten Mitarbeiters im Polizeikommissariat. Offenbar war Fazio in einen Hinterhalt geraten - mit bisher unbekanntem Ausgang. Die Ermittlungen führen Montalbano ins abgelegene Ödland der Mafia, wo ihm zwei namenlose Tote Rätsel aufgeben. Ebenso wie eine junge Pflegerin...

Ein greises Geschwisterpaar in religiösem Wahn, das Schüsse abfeuert, sobald jemand sich der Wohnung nähert. Eine massakrierte Gummipuppe, die Rätsel aufgibt - umso mehr, als sich in einem anderen Viertel Vigàtas eine zweite Puppe mit denselben Blessuren findet. Anonyme Botschaften in Reimform, die im Kommissariat eingehen. Commissario Montalbano ahnt schon bald, dass ein weit zurückliegender Fall erneut ans Tageslicht gerückt ist: das mysteriöse...

"Inspector Montalbano is troubled by a strange dream as three crimes demand his attention and a beautiful gallery owner threatens his longtime relationship with Livia"--