![]() ![]() “Camilleri is as crafty and charming a writer as his protagonist is an investigator.” -The Washington Post Book World “The idiosyncratic Montalbano is totally endearing.”- The New York Times Praise for Andrea Camilleri and the Montalbano Series The Terra-Cotta Dog (An Inspector Montalbano Mystery #2) 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. “You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. ![]()
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