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 enlarge | Author: Andrea Camilleri
Publisher: Picador
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 15879
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0330492993
EAN: 9780330492997
ASIN: 0330492993
Publication Date: January 6, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: 2006 Picador paperback. Ex-library copy, so usual markings and labels, flyleaf removed, spine base label. Spine crease, light cover wear and light cover creasing, light general reading wear...pages clean, tight and unmarked. Same or next working day UK bubble wrapped dispach.
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 Another enjoyable read by Camilleri September 13, 2006
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
When the police car of Inspector Montalbano hits a small car parked at an apparently deserted country home, the inspector has a gut feeling that something is wrong. He finds the body of a beautiful woman, strangled in her bedroom. After a short while it turns out that the woman has numerous acquaintances in the area and that there are a fair number of suspects. The investigation is not made any easier by the fact that Montalbano's superiors are not exactly supporting him, even though his own team is squarely behind him. A combination of good policework and flashes of brilliance in the end solves the crime. In the meantime Montalbano also has to sort out the mess that he is making of his private life. And that is the nice thing about this series: it is the combination of police work and private hassles, that make Montalbano into more than your average, typical policeman-from-a-novel, but rather a real character with his good and his bad sides.
 What a great new find... September 8, 2005
38 out of 38 found this review helpful
For me this is a great new find.
Translated from italian, it looses nothing of the humour and richness of Montalbano and his life in Sicily. I have laughed out loud and been captivated by the setting.
A wonderful read.
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