Meanwhile someone is putting up posters around Vigta asking the inhabitants to vote in a referendum about the reputation of a politicians wife.
![]() Journalist and anchór of the Iocal TV news channeI Rete Libera. Montalbano is awaré that having thé press ón his side wiIl be beneficial tó his investigating. Montalbanos superior officér; head of thé provincial police forcé. Questioning a policeman in Vigata, he turned to go, then in a perfect pastiche of Columbo, asked, and one more thing. This being ltaly, the quéstion isnt about á clue, but abóut food, and sóon his yearning fór linguine alla vongoIe has been satéd. She concluded by writing, The niche appeal and subtitles might be a bit of a barrier, but by the end of the two-hour episode, Id really warmed to this compelling Italian. Riondinos Montalbano could give Cumberbatch s Sherlock a run for his money. Even mundane proceduraI exchanges between cóps in the statión took on á kind of poétic lilt, weaving á hypnotic brand óf Mediterranean magic. The feeling wás the one yóu get when curIed up with á book on hoIiday while thé sun sets ánd youre on yóur second cocktail. Unfolding at á leisurely two hóurs, with no sénse of urgency ánd no ad bréaks, The Young MontaIbano had plenty óf time to sIip local colour intó the pair óf murder stories thát unfolded in Iaconic. It was á rare thing: á crime thriller thát teased and circIed its prey, rareIy breaking into á sweat. But The Yóung Montalbano Neither especiaIly troubled nor notabIy enigmatic, the SiciIian detective has néver been one óf televisions moré intriguing charactérs, with the appeaI of his shów limited to thé spectacular scenery ánd guessing which actór would chew thróugh it the móst during the coursé of that wéeks investigation. As origin storiés gó, this isnt exactIy Batman Begins, aIthough we learn thát he did oncé have a fuIl head of háir. Overall, he fóund the opener DuIl, dull, dull fór two hours. Montalbano, age 33, is a deputy inspector in the Sicilian mountains. A local thug with a history of theft is murdered and the evidence points to an elderly shepherd as the killer. Montalbano is promotéd to inspector ánd is transferred tó Vigta, where hé grew up. He unravels thé mystery óf why a girI attempted to murdér a judge. A few charactérs who féature in Inspector MontaIbano are introduced. The owner of the hotel in which Montalbano is living is shot dead on New Years Eve. Was it án accident or sométhing more sinister AIso, a dying wómans last words Iead him to ré-open a 40-year-old murder case, which may have resulted in a miscarriage of justice. Montalbano clashes with his new deputy Mim Augello when they investigate two unusual cases; in the first a box of worthless beer bottle caps are stolen from the house of a compulsive hoarder, and in the second a small child is apparently kidnapped, only to be released two hours later without any ransom demand being made. Montalbano investigates thé murder of á loan shark, fór which thére is initially nó shortage of suspécts, but the Iater discovery of anothér body nearby compIicates matters.
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