In The Sicilian Method, Andrea Camilleri's twenty-sixth novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series, Montalbano finds his answers to a murder in a theatrical play.Mimi Augello is visiting his lover when the woman's husband unexpectedly returns to the apartment. Hurriedly, he climbs out the window and into the downstairs apartment, but from one danger to another. In the dark he sees a body lying on the bed. Shortly afterwards another body is found and the victim is Carmelo Catalanotti, a director of bourgeois dramas with a harsh reputation for the acting method he developed for his actors: digging into their complexes to unleash their talent, a traumatic experience for all. Are the two deaths connected? Catalanotti scrupulously kept notes and comments on all the actors he worked with as well as strange notebooks full of figures, dates and names . . .Inspector Montalbano finds all of Catalanotti's dossiers and plays, the notes on the characters and the notes on his final drama, Dangerous Turn. It is in the theatre where he feels the solution lies.
Review
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
From the Back Cover
‘That’s a rather dangerous method,’ Montalbano observed . . .
When Montalbano’s colleague, Mimì Augello, accidentally discovers a dead body whilst hiding from his lover’s husband, it seems like an unfortunate occurrence. But when another body is found not long after, Inspector Montalbano can’t help but wonder if the two deaths are connected.
Luckily for the inspector, the second victim is Carmelo Catalanotti, an infamous director known for his acting method in which he digs into the psyche of the cast to unleash their inner talent – a traumatic experience for all. And with so many of his actors harbouring grudges, it shouldn’t be too hard to find someone with a motive . . .
‘Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today . . . Simply superb’ Sunday Times
‘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
About the Author
Andrea Camilleri was one of Italy’s most famous contemporary writers. The Inspector Montalbano series, which has sold over sixty-five million copies worldwide, has been translated into thirty-two languages and was adapted for Italian television, screened on BBC4. The Potter’s Field, the thirteenth book in the series, was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association’s International Dagger for the best crime novel translated into English. In addition to his phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano series, he was also the author of the historical comic mysteries Hunting Season and The Brewer of Preston. He died in Rome in July 2019.
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