Andrea Camilleris Inspector Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic take on Sicilian life. Montalbanos latest case begins with a mysterious tete a tete with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and dying words that lead him to an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. There, the inspector finds two young lovers, dead for fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-sized terra-cotta dog. Montalbanos passion to solve this old crime takes him on a journey through Sicilys past and into one familys darkest secrets. With sly wit and a keen understanding of human nature, Montalbano is a detective whose earthiness, compassion, and imagination make him totally irresistable.