Yes ouibonjour, the tv series remains faithful to them. Some of The young Montalbano are taken from Andrea Camillieri’s short stories. The first two books are The Shape of Water and The Terracotta Dog and we’re free on Kindle a little while ago.
Spicerack, you may not be able to actually live in his house but you can stay there, it's a b and b! The beach always looks to clean and in reality it's really scruffy, we've been down there a few times.