The BEST episodes written by Carlo Mazzotta

#1 - Academic Crime

Don Matteo - Season 1 - Episode 13

Another homicide in town: An employee of the research center is found dead. A fellow worker is suspected to have committed the crime, but Don Matteo's investigations point in a different direction.

#2 - A Debt for Life

Don Matteo - Season 4 - Episode 4

Captain Anceschi is seriously injured trying to foil a robbery in a supermarket. He is saved thanks to the blood donation of a girl, who is found dead a few days later. During his convalescence in the rectory, the captain will begin his own personal investigation and together with Don Matteo will discover a close link between the supermarket robbery and the girl's death...

#3 - The Suspect

Don Matteo - Season 4 - Episode 19

A prominent winemaker is killed in his cellar. Suspect number one is a childhood friend, the son of a family maid, who was unjustly fired. But the man, who fled after the murder, was not alone; with him was Laura, the mayor. Torn between a sense of duty and feeling, torn apart by suspicions and jealousy, Anceschi is no longer able to trust her...

#4 - Human Error

Don Matteo - Season 5 - Episode 11

#5 - Winning Horse

Don Matteo - Season 5 - Episode 20

#6 - The Strategy of the Scorpio

Don Matteo - Season 1 - Episode 5

An inmate is killed in jail. Suspicion falls on a prisoner who claims to be not guilty, although his fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. A scorpion fight, organized by the citizens, points Don Matteo in the right direction.

#7 - A Routine Operation

Don Matteo - Season 1 - Episode 2

The murder of a doctor is investigated.

#8 - Ageless Love

Don Matteo - Season 1 - Episode 14

Don Matteo prepares for a funeral when he finds out that the man, who passed away in an old people's home, didn't die a natural death. Suspicion falls on the victim's son's girlfriend, who offers to anonymously pay for the funeral.

#9 - Heart of Ice

Don Matteo - Season 2 - Episode 3

Nino Coronna is found in a garden of a villa, next to a corpse. The victim is the owner of the house, Giulia Chimenti's husband. Nino seems to be guilty and is immediately accused of homicide. Maresciallo Cecchini has to investigate alone because Captain Anceschi is a 'special friend' of Giulia. When Anceschi seems to be involved in the homicide, Don Matteo and Cecchini have to uncover the truth.

#10 - Reckoning with the Past

Don Matteo - Season 5 - Episode 1

#11 - The Courage to Speak

Don Matteo - Season 1 - Episode 3

Don Matteo's help is needed by a young woman, whose family is in financial distress and being blackmailed. The citizens, surprised about their priest's meetings with this beautiful woman, start to spread rumours.

#12 - Blackmail

Don Matteo - Season 1 - Episode 10

A well known entrepreneur is being blackmailed. Suspicion falls on a landlord who had differences with him before. While Don Matteo aids police investigations, the entrepreneur's son is poisoned...

#13 - The Actor

Don Matteo - Season 1 - Episode 11

A film team comes to town. An actor is killed on the set - the gun was loaded with real bullets! The person responsible for the props seems to have a motive...

#14 - The Rotten Apple

Don Matteo - Season 1 - Episode 16

A police officer who investigates a drug ring - incognito - is obviously discovered and violently punished by the gang. Don Matteo helps investigations.

#15 - Out Game

Don Matteo - Season 2 - Episode 15

The town's volleyball team won the championship. During the celebration, Varoli, president and trainer of the team, is found dead. Vivana an ex-player of the team is suspected to have committed this crime because she has a motive: Since a car accident caused by Varoli, she is bound to a wheel chair. Don Matteo knows the girl and tries to prove her innocence.

#16 - Behind the Curtain

Don Matteo - Season 4 - Episode 16

Giulia, a famous opera singer, is poisoned during a dinner in her honor held in Don Matteo's rectory. The first suspicions fall on the young collaborator, tired of undergoing the whims of the woman, and on her husband, who would have betrayed her. The skein becomes even more tangled when the singer accuses herself of poisoning. The solution to the case lies instead in the woman's past, behind the curtain of her career and her success...