The Shape of Water and the Terracotta Dog

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The Shape of Water Commissario Montalbano solves his first case. In his first case, a politician is killed. Everything initially points to a natural death, and the judge instructs Montalbano to close the case—to give the family peace and because there seems to be no need for an investigation. However, Montalbano insists on probing a little further. He makes a shocking observation: the natural death was not so natural, and the location—a brothel—raises his suspicions. The Terracotta Dog Commissario Montalbano is somewhat surprised when the fugitive serial killer Tano u Grecu asks for his arrest. After all, the Commissario is used to resistance in such matters. The explanation is clear: Tano fears his enemies in the Mafia more than the police—rightly so, as it turns out, because shortly thereafter he is murdered. What initially appears to be a typical Mafia crime develops into a complicated case when Montalbano uncovers another crime that occurred fifty years earlier. In a cave, he discovers the skeletal remains of a man and a woman in a loving embrace, guarded by a life-sized terracotta shepherd dog... Commissario Montalbano solves his second case.