With sly wit and a keen understanding of human nature, Montalbano is a detective whose earthiness, compassion, and imagination make him totally irresistable. Montalbano’s passion to solve this old crime takes him on a journey through Sicily’s past and into one family’s darkest secrets. There, the inspector finds two young lovers, dead for fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-sized terra-cotta dog. Montalbano’s latest case begins with a mysterious têtê à têtê with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and dying words that lead him to an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the WindowĪndrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic take on Sicilian life. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.” A.J. Aglow with local color, packed with flint-dry wit, as fresh and clean as Mediterranean seafood - altogether transporting. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen. Internationally bestselling author Andrea Camilleri not only writes a taut, engrossing mystery but brings to life the people, places, and experiences of contemporary Sicily in ways that enrich her story as well.“You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. While investigating this crime, Montalbano gains insights that tie these tragic deaths from so long ago, amid the horrors of WWII, to the violent events of today. Beside them stands an empty water jug and a bowl containing a few almost worthless coins. In a secret room, concealed behind a hidden cave, lie two bodies that have been dead since before Montalbano was born - a man and a woman, nude, embracing, watched over by a life-size terra-cotta dog. A combination of deduction, legwork, and insider knowledge leads Montalbano to put together the pieces of the strangest puzzle of all -and discover evidence of still another crime. There's no obvious connection, except for Montalbano's involvement.but threads from each investigation keep tangling with others. His old school friend, now a pimp, has, for some mysterious reason, arranged a meeting between Salvo and a crime boss a local supermarket is broken into and looted, yet the goods are found abandoned at a gas station the next day a elderly man dies in a single-car accident after telling Montalbano he has information for him the body of a stranger is found in a car trunk.
The Barnes & Noble Review In sunny Sicily, in a small coastal town, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is juggling an assortment of puzzling cases.
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