Hunting Season

From Andrea Camilleri, the internationally bestselling author of the Inspector Montalbano series, a delightful historical murder mystery and comic novel. 'Tomorrow hunting season opens. And I don't want to get shot . . .' Sicily, 1880. When a stranger arrives in Vigàta, the town's inhabitants immediately become unsettled. It seems the young man, Fofò, is the son of a local peasant legendary for his home-grown medicines; a man who was murdered many years before. Fofò opens his own pharmacy in Vigàta and his remedies are sought by many. But he soon finds himself entangled with the local nobility: Don Filippo - a philandering marquis set on producing a new heir, his long-suffering wife Donna Matilde, his eccentric elderly father Don Federico, his son Federico, and above all, his beautiful daughter Ntontò. But it won't be long before death visits Vigàta, and the town and its most noble family will never be the same again . . . Praise for Andrea Camilleri 'Entertaining and every so often moving . . . The comedy is broader, bawdier, and darker in Hunting Season' Wall Street Journal 'The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humour, and the sense of despair that fill the air of Sicily. To read him is to be taken to that glorious tortured island' Donna Leon Both a delightful murder mystery and a comic novel, fired by love and obsession and filled with memorable characters, Hunting Season is a captivating novel from Andrea Camilleri, the bestselling author of the Inspector Montalbano series.Sicily, 1880. When a stranger arrives in Vigàta, the town's inhabitants immediately become unsettled. It seems the young man, Fofo, is the son of a local peasant legendary for his home-grown medicines; a man who was murdered many years before.Fofo opens his own pharmacy in Vigàta and his remedies are sought by many. But he soon finds himself entangled with the local nobility: Don Filippo a philandering marchese set on producing a new heir, his long-suffering wife Donna Matilde, his eccentric elderly father Don Federico, his son Federico and beautiful daughter Ntontò above all. But it won't be long before death visits Vigàta and the town and its most noble family will never be the same again . . .'For sunny views, explosive characters and a snappy plot constructed with great farcical ingenuity, the writer you want is Andrea Camilleri' – New York Times