The Pyramid of Mud

The Pyramid of Mud is the twenty-second Montalbano mystery from Italys finest crime writer, Andrea Camilleri. Its been raining for days in Vig ta, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overwhelming the Inspectors beloved hometown, sweeping across the land and leaving only a sea of mud behind. It is on one of these endless grey days that a man a Mr Giugl Nicotra is found dead, his body discovered in a large sewage tunnel, half naked and with a bullet in his back. The investigation is slow and slippery to start with, but when Montalbano realizes that every clue he uncovers and every person he interviews is leading to the same place the world of public spending and, with it, the Mafia the case begins to pick up pace. But theres one question that keeps playing on Montalbanos mind: in his strange and untimely death, was Giugl Nicotra trying to tell him something? The Pyramid of Mud is followed by the twenty-third gripping Montalbano mystery, The Overnight Kidnapper.