The Shape of Water - Inspector Montalbano mysteries (Paperback)
Andrea Camilleri (author), Stephen Sartarelli (translator)Published: 20/08/2020
The first outing for Camilleri’s maverick detective Salvo Montalbano, The Shape of Water combines a suspenseful story of sordid shenanigans and political intrigue with wry humour and an evocative portrayal of the Sicilian underworld.
The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano.
When the body of respected and prominent engineer Silvio Luparello is discovered in the Pasture, a rubbish-strewn site brimming with drug dealers and prostitutes, the coroner’s verdict is death from natural causes – refreshingly unusual for Sicily.
But Inspector Salvo Montalbano of the Vigàta police force, 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, despite pressure from Vigàta’s police chief, judge, and bishop.
Picking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption, carefully planted false clues, trigger-happy Mafia members, and delicious Sicilian fare, Montalbano can be relied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of the matter.
The Shape of Water is followed by the second in this phenomenal series, The Terracotta Dog.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781529042023
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 174 g
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 16 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today . . . Simply superb - Sunday Times
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
One of fiction's greatest detectives and Camilleri is one of Europe's greatest crime writers - Daily Mail
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