Andrea Camilleri The Inspector Montalbano Mysteries 10 Book Collection

The inspector Montalbano Mystery 10 book collection from??Andrea Camilleri is the perfect series for any mystery novel lover. Andrea Camilleri is one of Italy's most famous contemporary authors and also the creator of Inspector Salvo Montalbano, the star of a major BBC4 television series. Montalbano has many tricky cases to solve with his eccentric team around him, this set is ideal for young adults interested in humorous, mystery novels.

Titles in This Set

• The Shape of Water
• The Terracotta Dog
• The Snack Thief
• The Voice of the Violin
• Excursion to TindariThe Scent of the Night
• Rounding the Mark
• The Patience of the Spider
• The Paper Moon
• August Heat

The Shape of Water

The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavour. But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello, one of the local movers and shakers, apparently deceased in flagrante at the Pasture. The coroner's verdict is death from natural causes - refreshingly unusual for Sicily. But Inspector Salvo Montalbano, as honest as he is streetwise and as scathing to fools and villains as he is compassionate to their victims, is not ready to close the case - even though he's being pressured by Vigata's police chief, judge, and bishop. Picking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendetta firepower, and carefully planted false clues, Montalbano can be relied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of the matter.

The Terracotta Dog

The Terracotta Dog opens with a mysterious t??te-??-t??te with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and some dying words that lead Inspector Montalbano to a secret grotto in a mountain cave where two young lovers dead fifty years and still embracing are watched over by a life-size terracotta dog. Montalbano?€?s passion to solve this old crime takes him, heedless of personal danger, on a journey through the island?€?s past and into a family?€?s dark heart amid the horrors of World War II. Andrea Camilleri?€?s Inspector Salvo Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic, engaging take on Sicilian small-town life and his genius for deciphering the most enigmatic of crimes. ?€?The novels of Andrea Camilleri breath out the sense of place, the sense of humour, and the sense of despair that fill the air of Sicily. To read him is to be taken to that glorious, tortured island?€? Donna Leon ?€?Both farcical and endearing, Montalbano is a cross between Columbo and Chandler?€?s Philip Marlowe, with the added culinary idiosyncrasies of an Italian Maigret?€? Guardian

The Snack Thief

Never has Inspector Montalbano?€?s character ?€? a unique blend 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 fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily?€?s coast, only Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished house cleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son steals other school children?€?s mid-morning 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.

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