The pyramid of mud
Call Number
- MYSTERY CAMI (OSH)
Publication Information
New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018]
Physical Description
256 pages ; 20 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
On a gloomy morning in Vigàta, a call from Fazio rouses Inspector Montalbano from a nightmare. A man called Giugiù Nicotra has been found dead in the skeletal workings of a construction site--a place now entombed by a sea of mud from recent days of rain and floods. Shot in the back, he had fled into a water supply system tunnel. The investigation gets off to a slow start, but all the evidence points to the world of construction and public contracts, a world just as slimy and impenetrable as mud. As he wades through a world in which construction firms and public officials thrive, Montalbano is obsessed by one thought: that by going to die in the tunnel, Nicotra had been trying to communicate something.
Notes
English translation of: La pirmaide di fango. Palermo: Sellerio Editore, ©2014.