The Sicilian Method

<p<bA troubling murder investigation may see Montalbano find his answers on a theatre's stage in <iThe 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; <iGuardian</i</b<br<brMimi 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<brShortly 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<brAre 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<brInspector Montalbano finds all of Catalanotti's dossiers and plays, the notes on the characters and the notes on his final drama, <iDangerous 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; <iDaily Mail</i</b</p