A Simple Story (Modern Voices)

The author's final detective story. In a small Sicilian village, a young and inexperienced policeman receives a strange phone call from a retired diplomat. On investigating the matter, he finds the diplomat dead. What at first appears to be a simple case of suicide turns into an intricate tale of corruption that involves the Mafia, the head of police, and the entire Sicilian establishment. In Candido, inspired by Voltaire's Candide, a naive young man makes his way in the world.