Del commissario Salvo Montalbano credevamo ormai di sapere tutto: di conoscerne vita, morte e miracoli, i luoghi, i gusti, le compagnie… Ma il suo creatore, Camilleri, riserva ai suoi lettori ancora tante sorprese. Nei tre racconti di questo...
A vederlo da lontano, Belcolle sembra un paese da cartolina, una barca arenata su una montagna verde, e sullo sfondo il mare di Cefalù. Ma da vicino è ben altra cosa: d’inverno è gelido e nevoso, e per tutto l’anno è abitato...
Dopo essere rimasto ferito nel corso di una sparatoria, il commissario Vincenzo Collura, detto “Cecè”, decide di trascorrere un periodo di convalescenza su una nave da crociera. Ma non fa in tempo a godersi il riposo che anche in vacanza si...
Maybe a phrase, a line, a hint somewhere would reveal a reason, any reason, for the elderly couple's disappearance. They'd saved everything ...there was even a copy of the 'certificate of living existence', that nadir of bureaucratic imbecility...
Camilleri's agreeable eighth contemporary police procedural featuring the crotchety but insightful Inspector Montalbano finds the Italian detective at home in Marinella enjoying the ministrations of his wife, Livia, after he was shot by a child...
Camilleri's gripping seventh Inspector Montalbano mystery (after 2005's *The Smell of the Night*) successfully integrates serious political themes with a hero reminiscent of Colin Dexter's beloved Inspector Morse. Frustrated by his department's...
In his fourth mystery to feature Inspector Salvo Montalbano (The Snack Thief, etc.), Camilleri once again thrills with his fluid storytelling and quirky characters. The irritable Sicilian detective's first challenge is to figure out a way to...
Never has Inspector Montalbano's signature mix of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food been more compelling than in The Snack Thief. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian...
A deep evocation of the Sicilian temperament, with all its complex darkness and ambiguity, is embodied in Inspector Salvo Montalbano of the fictive town of Vigata, in Sicily. Camilleri writes in Sicilian dialect, and his translator has expertly...