I think I started this last summer. Picked it up as a group read. Kept plogging away at it.

It turned out to be pretty good.

Think I'll go back and pick up the first one in the series.

I was already primed for corruption - having already read a lot of Donna Leon's Brunetti stories.

I think Inspector Montalbano's stories take place in Sicily or Southern Italy. I'm a little rusty on my Italian geography.

But it was a very interesting tale - reaching back to WWII. They find some bodies which apparently had been sleeping in a cave with a jug of water, a bowl of coins and a terra-cotta dog. Montalbano is intrigued by this scene and wants to track down what happened. And, he has the time to do it when he is recovering from being shot.

And a surprising thing was the explanatory notes. You don't usually find those in a detective story.