The Other End of the Line

The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri.

In Inspector Montalbanos coastal town of Vigàta, a surge of migrants have been coming in by boat, and all the towns hands are on deck to help the arrivals. At the heart of the scene are the police on the lookout for the people smugglers responsible and long night-shifts are rendering Inspector Montalbano and his officers exhausted.

Then one night, while Montalbano is enduring yet another gruelling stint at the port, a separate crime is committed unexplained, unexpected, and unpleasant. Elena, the dressmaker at the towns famous tailors, has been found dead slaughtered by her own scissors . . .

As a swell of desperate people arrive in search of a better life, Inspector Montalbano finds himself trying to unravel the mystery of who murdered the dressmaker. But as he makes his enquiries, the Inspector cant help but wonder: what will happen if he keeps tugging on this thread? And what will he find at the end of the line?