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The lawyer and journalist Matteo Teresi discovers the existence of a secret sect whose members include priests, politicians, and regional VIPs. During the early morning hours, when the town’s churches are closed, the "Sect of the Angels" meets in the sacristy to carry out their holy office: initiating devout virgins into the rites of married life. Preying on their victims’ naivete, the hooded "elect" commit ignominious acts while promising the young women divine grace. In 1901, at a time of immense changes in Sicilian society, the scandal breaks nationwide.

Sicily, April 16, 1677. From his deathbed, Charles III's viceroy, don Angel de Guzmàn, marquis of Castel de Roderigo, names his wife, donna Eleonora, as his successor. Eleonora di Mora is a highly intelligent and capable woman who immediately applies her political acumen to heal the scarred soul of Palermo, a city afflicted by poverty, misery, and the frequent uprisings they entail. The marquise implements measures that include lowering the price of bread and establishing stipends for young couples wishing to marry - all considered seditious by the conservative city fathers.

Los seis relatos reunidos en este volumen son una nueva muestra de la capacidad inagotable de Andrea Camilleri para ahondar, con su fino ingenio y su imaginación desbordante, en los recovecos más absurdos del alma humana. Concebidas a partir de evocaciones literarias y vestigios del pasado del autor, estas historias perfectas y muy logradas suponen una magnífica oportunidad para saborear la estrambótica realidad de la Italia de ayer y de hoy a través del pequeño mundo de Vigàta.

Andrea Camilleri, el querido maestro de la novela negra fallecido en julio de 2019, escribe una carta a su bisnieta Matilda. En ella repasa los episodios más representativos de su trayectoria personal y profesional junto con los hechos históricos más notables del último siglo.

Politik und Medien im infernalischen Duett - ein rabenschwarzes Hörbuch um Machtspiele im heutigen Italien...

Im Umland von Vigàta liegt ein Toter in einem Plastiksack. Wenig später meldet eine Frau ihren Ehemann als vermisst...

Im Fahrwasser einer Luxusjacht wird ein namenloser Toter angespült. Die mondäne Schiffskapitänin wirkt ebenso mysteriös wie ihre Besatzung...

Als die Schwefelquellen des mächtigen Händlers Barbabianca versiegen, begehren die Vigateser gegen den Dorfpotentaten auf. Nun endlich soll ihm die gerechte Strafe für seine Untaten zuteil werden. Doch wieder einmal kommt es ganz anders, und wenn dafür die heilige Jungfrau herhalten muss.

Set on the coast of Sicily, The Safety Net is the twenty-fifth novel in the bestselling Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri. ***Adapted for BBC4's Inspector Montalbano series*** Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the...

The Pyramid of Mud is the twenty-second Inspector Montalbano mystery from Italy's finest crime writer, Andrea Camilleri. It's been raining for days in Vigàta, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overtaking the Inspector's beloved hometown, sweeping across the land and...

Never has Inspector Montalbano's character – a unique blend of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food – been more compelling than in Andrea Camilleri's third Montalbano novel, The Snack Thief. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an...

The Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri is the fourth novel in the wryly humorous Inspector Montalbano series. The commissioner kept looking at him with an expression that combined contempt and commiseration, apparently discerning unmistakable signs of senile dementia in the inspector. "I'm...

Rounding the Mark is the seventh darkly humorous novel in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series. Increasingly disillusioned with his government and the world in general, Inspector Montalbano is considering retirement. He is starting to feel his age, and even his favourite restaurant has...

The Track of Sand is Andrea Camilleri's twelfth outing in the wryly humorous Inspector Montalbano series. Inspector Montalbano rises one morning to find the carcass of a horse on the beach in front of his seaside home. But no sooner do his men arrive, than the body has mysteriously vanished...

The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano. The goats of Vigàta once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and...

The Patience of the Spider is the eighth novel in Andrea Camilleri's wryly humorous Inspector Montalbano series. 'A brother,' he said. Jesus Christ! Now where'd this brother come from? Whose brother? Montalbano had known from the start that between all the brothers, uncles, in-laws, nephews and...

A collection of eight ingenious short stories following Inspector Montalbano’s investigations into Sicily’s murky underworld, all served with Camilleri’s trademark wit, and Montalbano’s typical appetite. Featuring stories adapted for BBC4’s Inspector Montalbano, this is the perfect...

A Nest of Vipers is the twenty-first novel in Andrea Camilleri's irresistible Inspector Montalbano series. Quite a family, you had to admit! A nest of vipers might be a better description . . . On what should be a quiet Sunday morning, Inspector Montalbano is called to a murder scene on the...

Aufruhr im sizilianischen Städtchen Vigàta. Zankapfel ist die umstrittene Einweihung des neuen Theaters Re d'Italia durch die Aufführung einer Oper des neapolitanischen, an Mozart geschulten Komponisten Luigi Ricci - so jedenfalls will es der frischgebackene, aus der Toskana stammende Präfekt Bortuzzi. Doch da hat er sich gründlich verrechnet. Am Schluss geht bei dieser Farce nicht nur der neue Theaterbau in Flammen auf.

Vigatà, 1935: Der kleine Michilino weiß schon als Sechsjähriger, dass er einmal ein Soldat des Duce werden möchte, um die Feinde des Landes mit Waffengewalt zu schlagen. Als er solcher Feinde in der eigenen Nachbarschaft gewahr wird, fasst er den Entschluss, diese umzubringen: Der Kommunist Maraventano und sein Sohn gehören zweifellos zum Abschaum... Andrea Camilleri beschreibt die faschistische Zeit Italiens in einer grotesken Überzeichnung, die die Alltäglichkeit von Gewalt, Vorurteilen und Scheinheiligkeit drastisch zeigt.