Between the breath of the sea and the saltiness of the air, life in Vigata flows with the usual noisy rhythm, with caprices and quarrels; intense passions, impatience, and oddities.
The peddler Adelina and Livya, Montalbano's "foreign" fiancée, openly dislike each other. Catarella, faithful to his exaggerated way of expression, wears his body like a mask to which gestures and expressions in dialect stick, intense and agitated. The journalistic thunderstorms of the two rival local television channels, cleverly organized by Montalbano, continue. Forensic doctor Pasquano is willing to stop every evil, irony, complaint, and blasphemy in front of a cannoli box. Deputy Mimi Augello knows everything about the lives of the city's most beautiful free women...

Contents:
- Room number 2
- Double investigation
- Death at sea
- The stolen note
- Agreement
- As required by legal practice
- An apricot
- The honest thief