Publisher's Synopsis
A mysterious tête-à-tête with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist and some dying words lead Inspector Montalbano to a secret grotto in a mountain cave where two young lovers, dead fifty years and still embracing, are watched over by a life-size terracotta dog. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him, heedless of personal danger, on a journey through Sicily's past and into a family's dark heart amid the horrors of World War II.
