The entire Montalbano series had been directed by Alberto Sironi, who died suddenly in August 2019, a few weeks after Camilleri, with Zingaretti then stepping in as director. Montalbano further determines that the murderer was the director of the archive, naked because of a homosexual encounter, which Agata accidentally witnessed. It is not the body of a victim but of another doll identical to that found in the palace of the Palmisano brothers. Ominously, the Di Giovanni couple are rehearsing their local production of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”.

Fearing the worst, Montalbano and Mimì climb Mount Scibetta and, having opened the well, find two corpses, but not the inspector, who will be found shortly after inside a cave, injured and frightened. This offers ample time for twists and turns in the plot as you try to discover the rather improbable circumstances of this engaging story.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Montalbano investigates criminal acts which he always manages to solve by reconstruction thanks to his intelligence and the help of his team which includes his deputy, Domenico 'Mimì' Augello, Giuseppe Fazio, Galluzzo, and Agatino Catarella. So much so that Montalbano comes to realize that the man's disturbing methods provide the solution to the mystery of his death.

But it’s Montalbano who does, as he leads the investigation into the apparent stabbing murder of Carmelo Catalanotti, a Vigàta local, the financier and director of the province’s Trinacria Arte amateur theater company, and a loan shark. I am eager to read the final book, Riccardino, which may offer a more definitive answer (scheduled for release in the U. For Detective Montalbano fans this case marks the end of the magnificent 22-year Sicilian adventure acclaimed as one of the best television crime dramas ever. Unexpectedly, the autopsy reveals that Barletta was actually poisoned with a powerful medicine dissolved in his coffee, while the shooting took place later.It’s Montalbano’s birthday, and on his way to work he encounters a driver who nearly runs him off the road. The series first aired on Italian television in 1999 and starred Luca Zingaretti as Salvo Montalbano, the police chief of Vigàta, a fictional town in Sicily. In part, because of these successive losses, some have speculated that additional Montalbano episodes after this one aren’t likely to make it f rom book to screen.

When a bomb goes off in front of an empty warehouse, the police think it is some sort of warning, and Montalbano turns his attention to the tenants of a nearby building.This is no schlocky mafia exposé – when it comes to felonies and fraud, Italy’s misdemeanours are as rigidly regional as its pasta shapes. He was taken ill during the filming of three new episodes in 2019 and Luca Zingaretti took over the direction.

The ending, if it is that, of the TV episodes was horribly done and should go down as one of the worst final scripts and plots ever filmed for a show of such international appeal and weight. Filming is in Ragusa Ibla, Modica, Donnafugata Castle and the Donnalucata, Pozzallo and Scoglitti ports, Marina di Ragusa, Comiso, Santa Croce Camerina, Sampieri, Acate, and other places in south-eastern Sicily. It turns out that he is a loan shark and what have been stolen are papers referring to his business dealings. Montalbano, after discovering that Manzella was one of the two corpses found in the well, realizes that he could not have warned Fazio, and for this very reason he investigates the life of man, finding in his apartment a letter addressed to himself, that Manzella, feeling threatened and thinking he could end badly, had left him. The second case concerns the complaint of an elderly farmer who has found his abandoned barn with a brand new locked door, which neither he nor the two Tunisian immigrants who work for him know anything about.In the Nordic countries the first 18 films are available as Box 1 (1–6), Box 2 (7–12) and Box 3 (13–18). The final episode of Montalbano already premiered in Italy back in March and in the UK and April, but will finally play in the US starting on July 6th on MhZ Choice.