{"product_id":"used-the-shape-of-water","title":"Used - The Shape Of Water","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Shape of Water\u003c\/i\u003e is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe goats of Vigàta once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavour. But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello, one of the local movers and shakers, apparently deceased \u003ci\u003ein flagrante\u003c\/i\u003e at the Pasture. The coroner's verdict is death from natural causes - refreshingly unusual for Sicily.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut Inspector Salvo Montalbano, as honest as he is streetwise and as scathing to fools and villains as he is compassionate to their victims, is not ready to close the case - even though he's being pressured by Vigàta's police chief, judge, and bishop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePicking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendetta firepower, and carefully planted false clues, Montalbano can be relied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of the matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Shape of Water\u003c\/i\u003e is followed by the second in this phenomenal series, \u003ci\u003eThe Terracotta Dog\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Publish Date - 1994 - Used Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54040170168630,"sku":null,"price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8714\/8342\/files\/1D8B1650-1833-4691-8388-C4E361139C39.jpg?v=1779226599","url":"https:\/\/thenandnowbookshop.com\/products\/used-the-shape-of-water","provider":"Then \u0026 Now Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}