'Both farcical and endearing, Montalbano is a cross between Columbo and Chandler's Philip Marlowe, with the added culinary idiosyncrasies of an Italian Maigret' - "Guardian".
'Cappellani's Catania has the brutality of Quentin Tarantino and the trash of Pedro Almodovar' - Corriere della Sera.
'Brilliant dialogue ...All the plot and rhythm of great cinema' - "Vanity Fair".
'Finally the post-modern and metropolitan Sicily has found its ideal chronicler ...A completely exhilarating story' - "La Repubblica".
'A debut novel as sharp as a knife' - "GQ".