The Patience of the Spider (Inspector Montalbano Series #8) Book

I still have several Montalbano books to read that I missed over the years, and this was one. This was very amusing for me as I have always enjoyed this writer's comedic arts and know there will be times I laugh loudly. Montalbano is recovering from a gunshot received in the last episode, so Livia is staying with him to help him toward wellness. A kidnapping is announced and his commissioner assigns someone from another locale to head up the messy investigation. This allows Montalbano to stay in the shadows gathering information as he stealthily moves along eventually seeing the pattern of deceit while watching a spider weave its web.
He remains incognito as he delivers the truth so that nothing is done from a legal standpoint and no one will ever know...unless he eventually tells Livia what really happened.