Inspector Montalbano ( ) is an Italian police procedural television series based on the detective novels of Andrea Camilleri. The protagonist is commissario Salvo Montalbano, and the stories are set in the imaginary town of Vigàta, Sicily. Inspector Montalbano has been produced and broadcast by RAI since 1999 to critical acclaim. The music for the soundtrack was composed by Franco Piersanti. In 2012 the series generated a prequel, The Young Montalbano.