The Shape of Water
by Andrea Camilleri (Sellerio, 1994); trans. Stephen Sartarelli
audiobook read by Mark Meadows (Macmillan, 2017)
Camilleri plunges the reader into a murder mystery predicated on the intricacies of Sicilian politics and social power dynamics. While the protagonist (Inspector Montalbano) and setting prove ripe for TV adaptation, the investigation in written form rather pales in comparison, retrospectively judged.