Andrea Camilleri's sensational and darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano series continues in the fourteenth instalment, The Age of Doubt.
A chance encounter with a strange young woman leads Inspector Montalbano to Vigàta harbour – and into a puzzling new mystery. The crew of a mysterious yacht – the Vanna – due to dock in the area has discovered a corpse floating in the water, the dead man's face badly disfigured. It isn't long before Montalbano becomes suspicious of the Vanna's inhabitants. Who is the yacht's owner, the glamorous and short-tempered Livia Giovannini? How has she accrued her riches? And why does she spend so much time at sea?
Meanwhile Montalbano finds himself getting into tangles with the dreaded Commissioner, the exasperating Dr Lattes and a very beautiful young woman at the harbour, with whom he becomes dangerously besotted . . . Can the Inspector clear his head long enough to unravel this murky mystery?
The Age of Doubt is followed by The Dance of the Seagull, the fifteenth book in the series.
'Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today . . . Simply superb' - Sunday Times
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781529043891
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 208 g
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 19 mm
Montalbano's colleagues, chance encounters, Sicilian mores, even the contents of his fridge are described with the wit and gusto that make this narrator the best company in crime fiction today - Guardian
Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today . . . Simply superb - Sunday Times
One of fiction's greatest detectives and Camilleri is one of Europe's greatest crime writers - Daily Mail
For sunny views, explosive characters and a snappy plot constructed with great farcical ingenuity, the writer you want is Andrea Camilleri - New York Times
One of fiction's greatest detectives and Camilleri is one of Europe's greatest crime writes . . . utterly gripping - Daily Mirror
Inspector Montalbano is not a detective to be put off his food easily and while he tries to unravel the mysteries surrounding a corpse discovered floating close to land and the puzzling crew of a visiing yacht he does... More
An Inspector Montalbano Mystery; now the 14th in this excellent series.
The usual fare here, it is a real pleasure to share in this fictitious world created by Andrea Camilleri, the Sicilian police world of Vigata.
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I didn't realize that this was one of the newest in the Montalbano series, so I was disconcerted by his bemoaning his age. The all-too-personal aspects were probably more suited to a romance, or the familiar... More
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