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The Wings of the Sphinx - Inspector Montalbano mysteries (Paperback)

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Published: 15/04/2021
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The Wings of the Sphinx is the eleventh book in the wickedly funny Inspector Montalbano series by Italian author, Andrea Camilleri.

Things are not going well for Inspector Montalbano. His long-distance relationship with Livia is on the rocks, he feels himself getting even older and he's growing tired of the violence in his job.

Then the dead body of a young woman is found in an illegal dump, with half her face missing. Her identity at first unknown; a tattoo of a sphinx moth on her left shoulder links her with three other girls bearing the same mark, all recent Russian immigrants to Italy. Victims of an underworld sex trade, these girls have been rescued from the Mafia night-club circuit by a Catholic charity organization. The problem is, the other girls can't help Montalbano with his enquiries. They are all missing.

As his investigations progresses, it seems that not everyone wants Montalbano to discover what really lies behind the organization's charitable façade. And not only does Montalbano have a case to solve, he has a demanding stomach to feed, and he must save his foundering relationship with Livia . . .

The Wings of the Sphinx is followed by the twelfth gripping mystery, The Track of Sand.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781529043860
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 210 g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 21 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

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Ian Curd

“Another Camilleri Cracker”

To say that these books are easy to read is to under sell them. They are beautifully translated by someone who not only writes but has an ear for language. So often translations do not serve a book well and the reader... More

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