The release date for the English version of 'The Shape of Water' by
Andrea Camilleri is May 2005. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Andrea Camilleri's humorous, immensely fascinating Sicilian crime series, starring Inspector Montalbano, begins with The Shape of Water.
The rubbish-filled area now referred to as the Pasture used to be home to Vigàta's goats. Nowadays, a new kind of local business is thriving: drug traffickers and various types of prostitutes. However, their clandestine business is upended when two workers of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company find the corpse of local influential engineer Silvio Luparello in the Pasture, who seems to have died in plain sight. The coroner's verdict—refreshingly unexpected for Sicily—is death by natural causes.
Inspector Salvo Montalbano is under pressure from Vigàta's police chief, judge, and bishop to close the investigation, but he is not ready. Inspector Montalbano is as honest as he is streetwise, as caustic to idiots and crooks as he is empathetic to their victims.
Montalbano can be counted on, at any cost, to navigate his way through a maze of high-comedy corruption, mouthwatering feasts, vengeance weaponry, and well crafted false clues in order to reach the core of the issue.
The second book in this amazing series, The Terracotta Dog, comes after The Shape of Water.