August Heat by Andrea Camilleri is the tenth installment of the Inspector Montalbano series, which has been adapted into a major TV series by BBC4. The slow, calm month of August, during the Sicilian summer, is, as Inspector Montalbano assures his girlfriend Livia, too hot for murders to be committed. However, when the young son of Livia's friends disappears, a series of events begins that will surely ruin the senior inspector's pleasant holiday. A secret apartment and a gruesome discovery in an old suitcase are just the beginning, as Montalbano navigates the case, as well as the unbearable heat, the suspicious death of an Arab worker, and the alluring charm of a beautiful girl... August Heat is followed by the eleventh book of the series, The Wings of the Sphinx.