El comisario Montalbano

Salvo Montalbano is forty-five years old, has a girlfriend in Genoa and is the police commissioner of Vigàta, in Sicily, a small town that, although it does not appear on any map, is as real as life itself. A faithful friend of his friends, a lover of good food and knowing that the earth has revolved and will continue to revolve around the sun, Montalbano embodies the essence of Mediterranean culture. His melancholic temperament, his implacable sense of justice, bordering on the quixotic, as well as his infallible insight, have made him a truly popular hero, whose stories are devoured with relish by millions of unconditional readers around the world.