TY - BOOK AU - Camilleri,Andrea AU - Sartarelli,Stephen TI - The pyramid of mud T2 - Inspector Montalbano mysteries SN - 9781447298342 U1 - 853.914 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Mantle KW - Montalbano, Salvo KW - Police KW - Italy KW - Sicily KW - Fiction KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Mafia KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft N1 - Originally published in Italian in 2014 as "La piramide di fango" by Sellerio Editore, Palermo N2 - It's been raining for days in Vigata, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overtaking the Inspector's 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 Giuglu Nicotra, is found dead. His body is 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 realises 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 there's one question that keeps playing on Montalbano's mind: in his strange and untimely death, was Giuglu Nicotra trying to tell him something? ER -