This latest mystery in Andrea Camilleri's internationally best-selling 'Inspector Montalbano' series is narrated by Grover Gardner, who won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Mystery in 2008 for his reading of Camilleri's Voice of the Violin .

With their dark sophistication and dry humor, Andrea Camilleri's classic crime novels continue to win more and more fans in America. The latest installment (#9) of the popular mystery series finds the moody Inspector Montalbano further beset by the existential questions that have been plaguing him of late. But he doesn't have much time to wax philosophical before the gruesome murder of a man -- shot at point-blank range in the face with his pants down -- commands his attention. Add two evasive, beautiful women as prime suspects, some dirty cocaine, mysterious computer codes, and a series of threatening letters, and things soon get very complicated at the police headquarters in Viggta.