Rounding the Mark: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
While swimming along the Sicilian shore, Inspector Montalbano discovers a corpse. His pursuit of the cause of death intersects with the inquiry into a hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of a young boy who may have been victimized by human traffickers. The buying and selling of immigrant children, for slave labor, sex, and as a source of illegal organ transplants, is part of the evil underside of the opening of Europe's borders. That, combined with frustration with his department's repressive handling of security for the G-8 summit in Genoa ...
The Smell of the Night: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
The Smell of the Night, the sixth mystery featuring Inspector Montalbano, brings the shady shenanigans of late twentieth-century international finance to small-town Sicily. A "financial wizard" entrusted with the savings of nearly half the retirees of Vigata mysteriously disappears with the money and a young man who worked for him. In a rather atypical case for Montalbano, the inspector finds himself initially shut out of the investigation by the ever hostile commissioner Bonetti-Alderighi, and forced to work from the shadows.
An Inspector Calls - BBC Radio 7 - Full Cast Drama
JB Priestley's classic charts the night an unexpected visitor leaves the Birling family in turmoil. The Birling family are celebrating their daughter's engagement when Inspector Goole calls to report the suicide of a young girl. We realise that one by one, each member of the family is implicated in the girl's breakdown. But who is really responsible for her death?
Excursion to Tindari: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building early one morning, and an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari - two seemingly unrelated cases for Inspector Montalbano to solve amid the daily complications of life at Vigàta police headquarters.
Voice of the Violin: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim's friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate. But it is a reclusive violinist who holds the key to the murder.
