'Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today ... Simply superb.' -- The Sunday Times 'One of fiction's greatest detectives and Camilleri is one of Europe's greatest crime writers.' -- The Daily Mail 'Montalbano's colleagues, chance encounters, Sicilian mores, even the contents of his fridge are described with the wit and gusto that make this narrator the best company in crime fiction today.' -- The Guardian