When the naked dead body of a young woman is found in a villa outside Vigata, Montalbano discovers that she had recently bought the villa and was in the process of restoring it using her wealthy husband's money. When the case is taken from Montalbano and given to rival inspector Panzacchi from nearby Montelusa, Panzacchi draws some easy conclusions and the investigation risks going badly off course. Will a proud Montalbano stick his neck out to regain control of the case or will he allow his incompetent colleagues to pin the murder on the wrong suspect?
Quest roles:
Giacinto Ferro(Questore Bonetti Alderighi), Katharina Böhm(Livia Burlando), Pietro Biondi(Questore Burlando), Ubaldo Lo Presti(Pippo Ragonese), Giovanni Vettorazzo(Guido Serravalle), Adriano Chiaramida(Ernesto Panzacchi), Sergio Fantoni(Maestro Cataldo Barbera), Costantino Carrozza(Avvocato Orazio Guttadauro), Francesco Stella(Agente Gallo), Biancamaria D'Amato(Anna Tropeano), Mario Erpichini(Dott. Licalzi), Gigliola Raja(Clementina Vasile Cozzo), Giovanni Boncoddo(Dottor Vanni Arquà), Maurizio Prollo(Maurizio Di Blasi), Alessia Merz(Michela Licalzi), Orazio Stracuzzi(Claudio Pizzotta), Giovanni Visentin(Giudice Nicolò Tommaseo)