A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building early one morning, & an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari
- two seemingly unrelated cases for Inspector Montalbano to solve amid the daily complications of life at Vigata police headquarters. But when Montalbano discovers that the couple & the murdered young man lived in the same building, his investigation stumbles onto Sicily`s brutal ` New Mafia`, which leads him down a path more evil & more far-reaching than any he has been down before.