Carmelo Galati

Montalbano and Livia are about to leave for a holiday, but a murder and the slaughter of several animals means that Livia leaves with someone else and Montalbano stays behind…

Montalbano receives anonymous letters connected with local workers’ deaths. Carmine Fazio retires, but is replaced by his son Giuseppe.

Montalbano investigates the shooting dead of a man in a hotel room on New Year’s Eve, and a dying woman’s last words leads him to re-open a 40-year old case.

Montalbano is deputy commissioner in a remote village in the Sicilian mountains. A local thug with a history of theft is murdered and the evidence points to an elderly shepherd…