Description
Inspector Montalbano investigates between the imaginary Vigàta and Tindari, the promontory overlooking the sea "with the small, mysterious Greek theater and the beach in the shape of a hand with pink fingers." A triple murder has occurred — a young Don Juan who lived beyond his apparent means, and two elderly pensioners, long confined to their home, who suddenly decide to take a trip to Tindari. They are connected, it seems, only by a condominium. Montalbano is affected by a kind of curse: he can read the signs that come from the very ancient that lives in the very modern land of Sicily. He is helped by an old, twisted olive tree, his team, the Swedish Ingrid, a book by Conrad, and an unnamed, unrepentant man.