The Pyramid of Mud
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- 4,99 €
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- 4,99 €
Publisher Description
The Pyramid of Mud is the twenty-second Montalbano mystery from Italy’s finest crime writer, Andrea Camilleri.
It’s been raining for days in Vigàta, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overwhelming the Inspector’s beloved hometown, sweeping across the land and leaving only a sea of mud behind. It is on one of these endless grey days that a man – a Mr Giuglù Nicotra – is found dead, his body discovered in a large sewage tunnel, half naked and with a bullet in his back.
The investigation is slow and slippery to start with, but when Montalbano realizes that every clue he uncovers and every person he interviews is leading to the same place – the world of public spending and, with it, the Mafia – the case begins to pick up pace.
But there’s one question that keeps playing on Montalbano’s mind: in his strange and untimely death, was Giuglù Nicotra trying to tell him something?
The Pyramid of Mud is followed by the twenty-third gripping Montalbano mystery, The Overnight Kidnapper.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The shooting death of Giugi Nicotra, his body found inside a huge pipe on a muddy construction site, propels Camilleri's irresistible 22nd Inspector Montalbano mystery set in Vig ta, Sicily (after A Nest of Vipers). Nicotra, the chief accountant for the construction firm Rosapina, lived nearby with his German-born wife, Inge, and an unidentified older man, both of whom are missing. At the victim's house, Montalbano discovers a bullet casing and other clues to the killing, but it's outside actions that galvanize his investigation. A reporter attributes Nicotra's murder to his wife's adultery and attacks the inspector's handling of the case, a Rosapina lawyer accuses Nicotra of stealing a gun from his office, a German lawyer says that Inge has returned to Germany, and yet another attorney escorts a man into Montalbano's office to confess to the crime. Despite feeling his age, Montalbano manages to arrive at a solution to the puzzle with his customary cunning, humor, and fearlessness. Readers will hope he lives forever.)
