Rounding the Mark

Italian Il giro di boa) is a 2003 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2006 by Stephen Sartarelli.

[1] Frustrated by his department's repressive handling of security for the G8 summit in Genoa, Montalbano seriously considers resigning.

His attempt to unwind with a casual swim along the Sicilian seashore fails when he discovers a corpse in the water.

The inspector's pursuit of the cause of death intersects with another mystery-the inquiry into a hit-and-run that claimed the life of a young boy who may have been victimized by human traffickers.

When Montalbano realizes that he may have inadvertently aided the boy's victimizers, his internal turmoil intensifies.