Sicilian Method

<p><b>A troubling murder investigation may see Montalbano find his answers on a theatre's stage in <i>The Sicilian Method</i>, Andrea Camilleri's twenty-sixth novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series.<br><br>'Even the contents of his fridge are described with the wit and gusto that make this narrator the best company in crime fiction today' &ndash; <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>Mimi Augello is visiting his lover when the woman's husband unexpectedly returns to the apartment. Hurriedly he climbs out the window and into the downstairs apartment &ndash; but finds himself swinging from one danger to another. In the dark, he sees a body lying on the bed.<br><br>Shortly afterwards another body is found, and the victim is Carmelo Catalanotti. A director of bourgeois dramas, he had a harsh reputation for the methods he developed for his actors: digging into their complexes to unleash their talent, a traumatic experience for all.<br><br>Are the two deaths connected? Catalanotti scrupulously kept notes and comments on all the actors he worked with &ndash; as well as strange notebooks full of figures, dates and names.<br><br>Inspector Montalbano finds all of Catalanotti's dossiers and plays, the notes on the characters and the notes on his final drama, <i>Dangerous Turn</i>. Indeed, it is in the theatre where he feels the solution lies . . .<br><br><b>'One of fiction&rsquo;s greatest detectives' &ndash; <i>Daily Mail</i></b></p>