The Shape of Water

Resumen del libro

The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano. When the body of respected and prominent engineer is discovered in the Pasture, a rubbish-strewn site brimming with drug dealers and prostitutes, the coroner's verdict is death from natural causes refreshingly unusual for Sicily. But Inspector Salvo Montalbano of the Vigàta police force, as honest as he is streetwise and as scathing to fools and villains as he is compassionate to their victims, is not ready to close the case, despite pressure from Vigàta's police chief, judge, and bishop.

Picking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption, carefully planted false clues, trigger-happy Mafia members, and delicious Sicilian fare, Montalbano can be relied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of the matter. The Shape of Water is followed by the second in this bestselling series, The Terracotta Dog.

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).