"Room Number 2" - a fire at a hotel results in the death of a man, murder? Salvo & Livia begin planning for the wedding. When Salvo asks Carmine to be his best man, Mimi gets upset. But Livia comes up with a solution that mends hurt feelings.
Inspector Montalbano investigates an apparently accidental shooting aboard a fishing-vessel, and becomes involved in a complicated plot involving the Sicilian mafia, infidelity and drug-smuggling.
When a car is discovered upside-down, having crashed over a cliff onto the rocks below, Montalbano finds the driver is a model from Vigatamoda. Meanwhile, his own relocation to Genoa with Livia is postponed while he investigates the case.