Book 4: "The Shape of Water" by Andrea Camilleri
Thursday, January 11th, 2007 18:03![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeOne day I saw that my friend had put a bowl, a cup, a teapot and a milk carton on the edge of a well, had filled them all with water, and was looking at them attentively.
"What are you doing?" I asked him. And he answered me with a question in turn.
"What shape is water?"
"Water doesn't have any shape!" I said, laughing. "It takes the shape you give it."
The first in this series of Sicilian police procedurals was a short book of just under 250 pages, with widely-spaced lines and large margins round each page, so it was a very quick read.
The story concerns the discovery of the body of a local politician, in his car in an area notorious for prostitution. He appears to have died of a heart attack so the police are under pressure to close the case quickly, but Inspector Salvo Montalbano, an honest cop in a corrupt system, believes that things are not exactly as they seem at first glance.
I'll definitely read the other books in this series if I come across them.
"What are you doing?" I asked him. And he answered me with a question in turn.
"What shape is water?"
"Water doesn't have any shape!" I said, laughing. "It takes the shape you give it."
The first in this series of Sicilian police procedurals was a short book of just under 250 pages, with widely-spaced lines and large margins round each page, so it was a very quick read.
The story concerns the discovery of the body of a local politician, in his car in an area notorious for prostitution. He appears to have died of a heart attack so the police are under pressure to close the case quickly, but Inspector Salvo Montalbano, an honest cop in a corrupt system, believes that things are not exactly as they seem at first glance.
I'll definitely read the other books in this series if I come across them.
