Enter to Win an Inspector Montalbano Gift Basket from Penguin Books

The Age of Doubt, the 14th book in Andrea Camilleri's "Inspector Montalbano" mystery series, is being published next week and to celebrate, Penguin Books is holding a giveaway … and a pretty amazing one at that.

One winner will receive the Grand Prize of an Inspector Montalbano Gift Basket that includes a variety of Italian foods such as pasta, sauce, olives, Italian desserts, roasted red peppers, olive oil, and cheese, along with all 14 novels in the Inspector Montalbano series. (See a photo of the Grand Prize at the bottom of this page.) Four second place winners will receive all 14 books in the series.

Visit the site's Facebook page to enter. (You will be asked to grant permission to the app to access your Facebook information.) The entry deadline is Tuesday, June 5th, 2012.

Separate from this, Penguin Books is also allowing us to give away a copy of The Age of Doubt to one of our readers. To enter our giveaway, visit Mystery Book Contests and click on the Andrea Camilleri: The Age of Doubt link, enter your name and e-mail address and this code, 8209, for a chance to win. One entry per person; our entry deadline is also Tuesday, June 5th, 2012.

About The Age of Doubt: The day after a storm, Inspector Montalbano encounters a strange woman who expresses interest in a certain yacht scheduled to dock that afternoon. Not long after she's gone, the yacht's crew reports finding a disfigured corpse. Also at anchor is a luxury vessel with a somewhat shady crew. Both boats will have to stay in Vigàta until the investigation is over and, based on information from the woman, Montalbano begins to think the occupants of the yacht might know more about the man's death than they're letting on.