"Rounding the Mark" is the seventh darkly humorous novel in Andrea Camilleri's "Inspector Montalbano" series. Inspector Montalbano, increasingly disillusioned with the government and the world in general, contemplates his retirement. He begins to feel his age, and even his favorite restaurant has closed. However, when he discovers a corpse during a refreshing swim, his investigative instincts are awakened once again. Especially when the most likely identification of the victim is of a man who has already been buried for a long time... "Rounding the Mark" is followed by the eighth novel in the series "The Patience of the Spider".