The TerraCotta Dog
An Inspector Montalbano Mystery

Inspector Montalbano's latest case begins with a mysterious tt tt with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and dying words that lead him to an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. There, the inspector finds two young lovers, dead for fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a lifesized terracotta dog. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him on a journey through Sicily's past and into a family's dark heart amid the horrors of World War II.