The Cook of the Halcyon

Resumen del libro

The Cook of the Halcyon is the penultimate novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series from the master of Sicilian crime, Andrea Camilleri.

Moments later the all-white schooner, which looked like a hospital ship, began to pass ever so slowly before him, as if wanting to show itself off in all its beauty. The name on the prow said: Halcyon.

Two deaths - the suicide of a recently fired worker and the murder of an unscrupulous businessman - lead Inspector Montalbano to the Halcyon, a mysterious ship that visits Vigata's port each day. With very few crewmen, no passengers, and a stern large enough to land a helicopter, it piques the Inspector's interest straight away.

In the midst of this, a rare trip to Genoa to visit Livia ends with the Vigata police department in disarray, and Inspector Montalbano's position as the head of the commissariat in jeopardy. It will be up to Montalbano to fix the damage done.

Biografía del autor

Andrea Camilleri (1925-2019) fue guionista y director de teatro, radio y televisión, además de uno de los más reconocidos y prolíficos novelistas italianos contemporáneos. Tras haber abarcado numerosos géneros literarios, alcanzó la fama mundial gracias al personaje de Salvo Montalbano, un entrañable comisario de policía siciliano protagonista de una saga que consta de veintiocho novelas y de varios relatos recopilados en cinco volúmenes. Camilleri, traducido a treinta y seis idiomas y con más de treinta millones de ejemplares vendidos en el mundo, ha sido galardonado con los premios Campiello (2011) y Pepe Carvalho (2014).