Hunting Season

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The old man contemplated the stranger a few seconds in silence, began to shake all over, and opened his mouth as if to cry out in astonishment. 'Madonna biniditta!' he managed to rasp. Then he lowered his eyelids, repeating again to himself, this time almost in a tone of resignation: 'Madonna biniditta!' 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 . . . Both a delightful murder mystery and a comic novel of huge brio, fired by love and obsession and filled with memorable characters, Hunting Season is the captivating new book from the bestselling author of the Inspector Montalbano series.