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
Guardian
Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today . . . Simply superb
Sunday Times
One of fiction's greatest detectives and Camilleri is one of Europe's greatest crime writers
Daily Mail
A joy to read.
The Times
This savagely funny police procedural proves that sardonic laughter is a sound that translates ever so smoothly into English.
New York Times