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Book SynopsisThe long-awaited last novel in the transporting and beloved New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano seriesAt eighty, I foresaw Montalbano''s departure from the scene, I got the idea and I didn''t let it slip away. So I found myself writing this novel which is the final chapter; the last book in the series. And I sent it to my publisher saying to keep it in a drawer and to publish it only when I am gone. –Andrea Camilleri
Montalbano receives an early-morning phone call, but this time it''s not Catarella announcing a murder, but a man called Riccardino who''s dialed a wrong number and asks him when he''ll be arriving at the meeting. Montalbano, in irritation, says: In ten minutes. Shortly after, he gets another call, this one announcing the customary murder. A man has been shot and killed outside a bar in front of his three friends. It turns out to be the same man who called him.
Thus begins an intricate investigation further