The Pyramid of Mud is the twenty-second Montalbano mystery from Italy's finest crime writer Andrea Camilleri It's been raining for days in Vigata & the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overtaking the Inspector's beloved hometown sweeping across the land & 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 discovered in a large sewage tunnel half naked & with a bullet in his back The investigation is slow & slippery to start with but when Montalbano realizes that every clue he uncovers & every person he interviews is leading to the same place the world of public spending
- & 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 & untimely death was Giuglu Nicotra trying to tell him something?