The Potter's Field - Inspector Montalbano mysteries (Paperback)
Andrea Camilleri (author), Stephen Sartarelli (translator)Published: 08/07/2021
From the Italian crime legend, Andrea Camilleri, comes The Potter's Field, winner of the CWA International Dagger Award and the thirteenth instalment in the Inspector Montalbano series.
While Vigàta is wracked by storms, Inspector Montalbano is called to attend the discovery of a dismembered body in a field of clay. Bearing all the marks of an execution style killing, it seems clear that this is, once again, the work of the notorious local mafia. But who is the victim? Why was the body divided into thirty pieces? And what is the significance of the Potter's Field?
Working to decipher these clues, Montalbano must also confront the strange and difficult behaviour exhibited by his old colleague Mimi, and avoid the distraction of the enchanting Dolores Alfano – who seeks the inspector's help in locating her missing husband. But like the Potter's Field itself, Montalbano is on treacherous ground and only one thing is certain – nothing is quite as it seems . . .
'Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today . . . Simply superb' - Sunday Times
The Potter's Field is followed by The Age of Doubt, the fourteenth in the series.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781529043884
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 218 g
Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 20 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
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
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