Excursion to Tindari

“You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven't read him yet. 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. Aglow with local color, packed with flint-dry wit, as fresh and clean as Mediterranean seafood — altogether transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.” A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the WindowInspector Montalbano, praised as “a delightful creation” (USA Today), has been compared to the legendary detectives of Georges Simenon, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler. As the fourth mystery in the internationally bestselling series opens, Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim's friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate... But it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holds the key to the murder.

andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano Has Garnered Millions Of Fans Worldwide With His Sardonic Take On Sicilian Life. 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. 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 Passion To Solve This Old Crime Takes Him On A Journey Through Sicily's Past And Into One Family's Darkest Secrets. With Sly Wit And A Keen Understanding Of Human Nature, Montalbano Is A Detective Whose Earthiness, Compassion, And Imagination Make Him Totally Irresistable.

kirkus Reviews

in The Second Installment Of The Popular Italian Series (the Shape Of Water, P. 454), Rumpled Sicilian Police Inspector Salvo Montalbano Receives An Unusual Offer From Crime Kingpin Gaetano The Greek Bennici (known As Tano), Facilitated By Montalbano's Childhood Friend Gege Gulotta, Now A Petty Criminal And Quite The Weasel. Facing A Health Crisis, Tano Wants Montalbano To Stage A Fake Raid That Will Land Him Safely In Custody (and In Hospital), For A Rejuvenating Stay Without A Loss Of Face. Montalbano Is Dubious, But Doesn't Look This Gift Horse In The Mouth. His Superior Investigative Gifts Are At Odds With His Slacker Style, The Latter A Huge Frustration To Ambitious Protégé Mimi And Demanding Mistress Livia And The Windy Police Commissioner, Who Tries To Thrust An Unwanted Promotion On Elusive Montalbano. Montalbano's Force Resembles The Keystone Kops. Their Staged Arrest Of Tano Flirts With Hilarious Disaster. Ultimately, Tano's Enemies Kill Him, But The Escapade Leads Montalbano On A Twisty Hunt From A Supermarket Picked Cleaned Of Merchandise To A Cave Where This Booty Is Found, Along With A Cache Of Illegal Arms. In A Neighboring Cave Lies A 60-year-old Murder Mystery That Becomes A Surprising Obsession And Gives The Book Its Title. The Skeletons Of Two Young Lovers, Long-forgotten, Are Discovered Near The Terra-cotta Dog, A Symbol Of Sleep From The Koran. Montalbano's Investigation Focuses More On Academic Research Than Witness Questioning, But Ends With Perpetrators Very Much Alive And Dangerous. Montalbano's Deadpan Drollery And Sharp Observations Refresh As Much For Their Honesty As Their Wit. All He Wants Is A Quiet Corner And An Uninterrupted Afternoon; What Reader Feelsotherwise?

Inspector Montalbano, praised as “a delightful creation” (USA Today), has been compared to the legendary detectives of Georges Simenon, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler. As the fourth mystery in the internationally bestselling series opens, Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim's friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate. But it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holds the key to the murder.

The New York Times

With his eye for beautiful women, his taste for fine literature and a tendency to stop in his tracks to indulge in a meal, the idiosyncratic Montalbano is totally endearing. But he's also a shrewd tactician and a very sensitive man, capable of listening with rapture to a private violin concerto played by a disfigured recluse -- no colorful throwaway scene, but a key piece of the plot. Stephen Sartarelli's light touch with the translation captures the sunny humor of Camilleri's idiomatic Sicilian dialect, even as it conveys the darker nuances of this complicated region. —Marilyn Stasio

The Sicilian detective, Inspector Salvo Montalbano, is on the search for the killer of a young woman. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer (now disappeared) and her lover - an antiques dealer from Bologna. However, it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holds the key. The fourth in the internationally bestselling series featuring the irresistible Sicilian detective. Inspector Salvo Montalbano, with his compelling mix of humor, cynicism, and compassion, has been compared to Georges Simenon's, Dashiel Hammett's, and Raymond Chandler's legendary detectives. In this latest novel, Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim's friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate. But it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holds the key to this murder. In the third book in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series, the urbane and perceptive Sicilian detective exposes a viper's nest of government corruption and international intrigue in a compelling new case. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Montalbano suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son steals other schoolchildren's midmorning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's life as well as Montalbano's is on the line . . . When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Inspector Montalbano, with his keen insight into human nature, suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and occasional prostitute, whose young son steals other schoolchildren's midmorning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's life, as well as Montalbano's, is endangered when the inspector exposes a viper's nest of government corruption and international intrigue Suspecting A Link Between The Murder Of An Elderly Man And The Shooting Of An Italian Fisherman, Inspector Montalbano Encounters Impoverished Housekeeper And Sometime Prostitute Karima, Whose Thieving Young Son's Life Is Endangered After She Disappears. Andrea Camilleri ; Translated By Stephen Sartarelli. First Published In Italy As Il Ladro Di Merendine By Sellerio Editore 1996. -- T.p. Verso. Sequel To: The Terra-cotta Dog. Sequel: Voice Of The Violin. An Inspector Montalbano Mystery. -- Cover. Stumbling on a fifty-year-old mystery involving a pair of lovers whose bodies are found in a mountain cave beside a dog statue, Inspector Montalbano investigates the island's past and traces a family's secret back to World War II Follows Sicilian detective Inspector Montalbano as he investigates the suspicious death of an engineer who had made a name for himself in a small town.