The Safety Net is the next-to-last (2017, English translation 2020) in the excellent IMO Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri. It is Ģ0.99 at Kindle UK right now. A nice price for what is still the most recent title, for a few more days, until Camilleri's final book,
The Sicilian Method, comes out on October 6.
Kindle UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07YZG45TH
Kindle UK/Smile:
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07YZG45TH
Spoiler:
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Vigāta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the director asks the locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigāta at that time. Meanwhile, Montalbano is grappling with a double mystery, one that emerges from the past and another that leads him into the future . . .
Engineer Ernesto Sabatello, rummaging in the attic of his house, finds some films shot by his father between 1958 and 1963, always on the same day, 27th March, and always the same shot: the outside wall of a country house. Montalbano hears the story and, intrigued, begins to investigate its meaning.
Meanwhile, a middle school is threatened by a group of armed men, and a closer look at the case finds Montalbano looking into the students themselves and delving into the world of social media.
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