The Shape of Water
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Follows Sicilian detective Inspector Montalbano as he investigates the suspicious death of an engineer who had made a name for himself in a small town.
Inspector MontalbanoSeries
This series follows a brilliant yet irascible Sicilian inspector as he solves crimes in the charming but corrupt town of Vigàta. Each installment offers compelling mysteries set against the backdrop of authentic Sicilian life, complete with vibrant culture, complex characters, and sun-drenched landscapes. Readers are drawn to the protagonist's wit, humanity, and unconventional methods that invariably lead him to the truth, often seasoned with local dialect and culinary delights.
Recommended Reading Order
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Stumbling on a fifty-year-old mystery involving a pair of lovers whose bodies are found in a mountain cave beside a dog statue, Inspector Salvo Montalbano investigates the island's past and traces a family's secret back to World War II. Reprint.
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The snack thief
- 298 pages
- 11 hours of reading
The third novel in Camilleri's savagely witty, brilliantly evocative Sicilian mystery series featuring Inspector Montalbano
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Inspector Montalbano Mystery - 4: The Voice of the Violin
- 265 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim's friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate. But it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holds the key to this murder.
- 4
The voice of the violin
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer.
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Excursion to Tindari
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment - and, at the same time, an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari. But as Inspector Montalbano discovers, these two seemingly unrelated cases lead him down a path more evil and far-reaching than he has been down before.
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When an angry octogenarian holds a terrified and lovelorn secretary at gunpoint, Inspector Montalbano is reluctantly drawn into the case. The secretary's boss, a financial advisor, has vanished along with several billion lire entrusted to him by the good citizens of Vigata. Also missing is the advisor's young colleague.
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This dazzling new book in Andrea Camilleri's international bestselling mystery series brings back earthy and urbane Sicilian detective Inspector Montalbano, who must delve deeply into the secret world of illicit trafficking in human lives.
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The Patience of The Spider
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Winning fans in Europe and America for their dark sophistication and dry humor, Camilleri's crime novels are classics of the genre. Set once again in Sicily, this newest work pits Inspector Montalbano against his greatest foe yet: the weight of his own years.
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The Paper Moon
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
The latest installment of the popular mystery series finds the moody Inspector Montalbano with no time to wax philosophical before the gruesome murder of a man shot at pointblank range in the face with his pants down commands his attention.
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August Heat
- 280 pages
- 10 hours of reading
When a friend's child suddenly disappears into a narrow shaft hidden under a beach rental, Inspector Salvo Montalbano, in pursuit of the boy, uncovers something terribly sinister, in the latest work in the popular series.
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Another exciting and humorous Sicilian investigation featuring the inimitable Inspector Montalbano.
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While Vigàta is wracked by storms, Inspector Salvo 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 30 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 . . .
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As seen on TV: now a major BBC4 television series. 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 have discovered a corpse floating in the water, the dead man's face badly disfigured. It isn't long before Montalbano begins to become 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?
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The inimitable Inspector Montalbano returns for his fifteenth engrossing mystery.
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The Treasure Hunt
- 281 pages
- 10 hours of reading
The irresistible Inspector Montalbano returns for his sixteenth mystery Montalbano opened the door to step out. But Gallo held him back, putting one hand on his arm. ‘What’s in there, Chief?’ ‘If it’s what I think, it’s something so horrific that it’ll haunt your dreams for the rest of your life . . .’ When a crazed elderly man and his sister begin firing bullets from their balcony down onto the Vigata street below, Inspector Montalbano finds himself a reluctant television hero. A few days later, when a letter arrives containing a mysterious riddle, the Inspector becomes drawn into a perplexing treasure hunt set by an anonymous challenger. As the hunt intensifies, Montalbano is relieved to be offered the assistance of Arturo Pennisi, a young man eager to witness the detective’s investigative skills first hand. Fending off meddling commissioners and his irate girlfriend, Livia, the inspector will follow the treasure hunt’s clues and travel from Vigata’s teeming streets to its deserted outskirts: where an abandoned house overlooks a seemingly bottomless lake. But when a horrifying crime is committed, the game must surely be laid aside. And it isn’t long before Montalbano himself will be in terrible danger . . .
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Another bestselling Sicilian mystery featuring Inspector Montalbano.
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Game of Mirrors
- 277 pages
- 10 hours of reading
“You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen...transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.” —A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano novels have become an international sensation, with fans eagerly awaiting each new installment. In Game of Mirrors, Inspector Montalbano and his colleagues are stumped when two bombs explode outside empty warehouses—one of which is connected to a big-time drug dealer. Meanwhile, the alluring Liliana Lombardo is trying to seduce the Inspector over red wine and arancini. Between pesky reporters, amorous trysts, and cocaine kingpins, Montalbano feels as if he’s being manipulated on all fronts. That is, until the inspector himself becomes the prime suspect in an unspeakably brutal crime.
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For a brief moment, as Montalbano was looking, a bright blade of light flashed from the loft and shone straight in his eyes. Despite the sunglasses, he instinctively shut his eyes and when he reopened them the light was gone. When a gentleman arrives at Montalbano's station to report an armed robbery on his wife that ended with a kiss, the inspector's suspicions are aroused. As he delves deeper into the case, Montalbano finds that none of the witnesses' stories are adding up, and he can't help but feel that they're not meant to. When a body turns up showing all the signs of a mafia hit, the inspector knows he must excavate the truth from what he is being led to believe. Meanwhile there's a case that keeps winding its way back to Montalbano's office. A locked door has suddenly appeared on a farmer's disused shed, and then, just as quickly, the door disappears. The anti-terrorist police soon intervene, but why are they so keen to keep this away from the inspector? And why does he sense that this case is connected to him somehow? With deceit at every turn and a distraction of the heart taking over his head, Inspector Montalbano must focus if he is ever going to solve this mystery
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A Voice in the Night
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
A Voice in the Night is the twentieth compelling crime novel in the phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri.It occurred to him that he might not have had anything to do with Strangio's death. It was a voice in the night, an anonymous voice, that had told him this. A voice in the night that could easily have been the voice of his conscience.Feeling his age, as his birthday rolls round once again, Inspector Montalbano decides to cheer himself up by dealing with a young driver's road rage in his own unique way.But his joy is short-lived, as at police headquarters he receives an angry phone call from a supermarket boss; there's been a robbery at his store and Montalbano's colleague is treating him as a suspect. On arrival at the scene, Montalbano quickly agrees with Inspector Augello that this was no ordinary break-in, but with the supermarket's infamous links to the Mafia creating problems at every turn, this isn't going to be an easy case for the inspector to solve.And to add to the inspector's burden, the young driver he made an enemy of earlier on has returned to police headquarters to report a shocking crime . . .
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The latest irresistible Inspector Montalbano mystery
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Inspector Montalbano must unravel the mystery of a dead body discovered in a sewage tunnel in the twenty-second novel in Andrea Camilleri's critically acclaimed series.
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Three cases of overnight kidnapping baffle the Vigatan police force in Andrea Camilleri's twenty-third Inspector Montalbano mystery.
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The Other End of the Line
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
The twenty-fourth thrilling mystery in the Inspector Montalbano series.
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The Safety Net
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
As a film crew descend upon Vigata, Montalbano is busy investigating two cases: one from the past and the other involving the new world (for him, at least) of social media.
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The twenty-sixth thrilling mystery in the Inspector Montalbano series.
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Inspector Montalbano embarks on his final case and, as with Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Morse before him, his last adventure is as thrilling as it is surprising. Riccardino marks a fitting end to a remarkable series of novels.
8 racconti polizieschi con il Commissario Salvo Montalbano tratti dal libro Un Mese con Montalbano, che si svolgono nella piccola città immaginaria di Vigàta, nel cuore della Sicilia.
Trenta crimini da risolvere. Delitti d'amore, d'interesse, di mafia, frutto di ambizione, di esaltazione, di esplosivo furore o di logorante quotidianità. Trenta indagini alla ricerca di una giustizia possibile. Quella giustizia che il commissario Montalbano si sforza di perseguire nel cuore della Sicilia. Un uomo con un'esistenza ordinaria, da funzionario integerrimo, con un'eterna fidanzata lontana, in Liguria, e tre grandi passioni: il mangiare, il bere e la letteratura. Brusco, talvolta scorbutico, ma dotato di un'irresistibile carica di umanità e di ironia, Salvo Montalbano applica la propria intelligenza a uno straordinario campionario di delitti, premeditati e solo simulati. Un mondo feroce e violento, che egli affronta con le armi della logica, ma anche della pietà e dell'umorismo.
Death at Sea
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
From the title story, Death at Sea, in which the alleged manslaughter of an engineer upon a fishing trawler leads Inspector Montalbano to uncover an even more sinister crime, Andrea Camilleri takes his readers through eight cunning cases from the Vigatan police files. Starting with an arson attack on a hotel which leaves the distraught owner as the chief suspect; to the mysterious case of a woman who goes missing in an underpass with a million lira in her handbag; to a threat on Montalbano's own life, as an anonymous motorcyclist takes a shot at the detective.
Books one, two and three in the Inspector Montalbano crime series - now a major BBC4 TV series
Das Paradies der kleinen Sünder
Commissario Montalbano kommt ins Stolpern. Montalbano-Erzählband 1
- 413 pages
- 15 hours of reading
Wenn es 8:8 steht und nicht der Stand eines Fußballspiels gemeint ist, sondern die tödliche Bilanz zweier verfeindeter Mafia-Familien. Wenn ein angesehener Arzt, der sich einen Fehltritt mit einer streng behüteten Zwanzigjährigen erlaubt, plötzlich deren gesamte Sippe am Hals hat und spurlos verschwindet. Wenn eine nicht unvermögende, bereits über neunzigjährige Dame ungebetenen Besuch erhält und der Täter der Teufel selbst ist - dann kann man mit Sicherheit davon ausgehen, dass dich diese Dinge irgendwo in Sizilien ereignen und Commissario Montalbano nicht weit ist.
Il commissario Salvo Montalbano incontra l'ispettrice Grazia Negro in un gioco, un esperimento, una collaborazione letteraria senza precedenti: i due "re" del giallo italiano contemporaneo, entrati in contatto durante le riprese del documentario "A quattro mani" (Minimum Fax Media 2007), uniscono le forze e regalano ai lettori una storia che vede protagonisti i loro personaggi di maggior successo. A metterli in contatto è un insolito omicidio in cui la vittima viene ritrovata con un pesciolino in bocca: il caso è nelle mani di Grazia Negro, che, resasi conto di non trovarsi di fronte a un delitto di ordinaria amministrazione, chiede aiuto al collega siciliano. Un romanzo dalla struttura insolita e non convenzionale: un collage di lettere, biglietti, ritagli di giornale, rapporti e verbali, "pizzini" che fanno rocambolescamente la spola fra i due detective,stimolando e accompagnando il lettore nella ricostruzione dell'indagine, che si conclude con un finale mozzafiato. Una jam session fra due narratori geniali che si divertono a far interagire il loro immaginario e il loro stile, una lettura unica per gli amanti del poliziesco e del noir. Gli autori hanno scelto di devolvere i proventi derivati dai diritti d'autore per sostenere progetti di beneficenza.
Death in Sicily
- 704 pages
- 25 hours of reading
Collected in one volume—the first three books in the bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series “You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen. Aglow with local color, packed with flint-dry wit, as fresh and clean as Mediterranean seafood — altogether transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.” A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window American readers were first introduced to Sicily’s inimitable Inspector Salvo Montalbano more than ten years ago. Since then, the detective—and his characteristic mix of humor, cynicism, compassion, and love of good food—has won the affection of crime fiction aficionados and Italophiles alike. With Andrea Camilleri’s last two mysteries appearing on the New York Times bestseller list, it’s clear that interest in the series is at an all time high. Now, Death in Sicily features the Inspector’s first three adventures in one handy volume, offering new readers just the enticement they need to get started.
Racconti di Montalbano
- 504 pages
- 18 hours of reading
Da La prima indagine di Montalbano, dove Salvo Montalbano è un semplice vicecommissario che sogna di essere trasferito in un paese di mare, fino a La finestra sul cortile, ultimo in ordine di tempo e sinora inedito in volume, un vero regalo di Camilleri ai suoi lettori: lungo diciannove racconti, scelti e ordinati personalmente dall'autore per questa antologia, si dipana la carriera del più amato commissario d'Italia e la straordinaria amicizia fra lo scrittore e il suo personaggio.
Tre racconti lunghi sui primi casi della giovinezza di Montalbano.
Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories
- 538 pages
- 19 hours of reading
"A Penguin mystery original"--Page 4 of cover.
Commissario Montalbano hat es wirklich nicht leicht, denn trotz Fieberschüben und Gebirgskoller ist sein Einfallsreichtum überaus gefragt. Doch zum Glück gibt es immer ein paar Dinge, die seine gute Laune am Leben erhalten: das Meer vor seiner Haustür in Marinella, die Köstlichkeiten in der Trattoria San Calogero und - die Frauen. Was wäre die Welt ohne das schöne Geschlecht, dem sowohl Montalbano als auch der Sizilianer im Allgemeinen und überhaupt alle Männer irgendwie verbunden sind: intelligente Frauen, schöne Frauen - aber vor allem gefährliche Frauen, die auf Rache sinnen? Und Frauen rächen sich nicht irgendwie, sondern auf raffinierte Weise, giftig, mit spitzer Zunge und anderen - garantiert tödlichen - Waffen.
Italiens berühmteste Ermittlerin gemeinsamer MissionEin Goldfisch steckt in der Kehle der Leiche, die in einer Bologneser Wohnung aufgefunden wird. Der Mann liegt in einer Wasserlache, er wurde mit einem Plastikbeutel erstickt. Die junge Kommissarin Grazia Negro kann sich keinen Reim auf die seltsame Inszenierung des Tatortes machen. Da das Opfer aus Vigàta, der Heimat Salvo Montalbanos, stammt, bittet sie ihren sizilianischen Kollegen um Hilfe. Als Grazia kurz darauf von höchster Stelle jedes weitere Eingreifen untersagt wird, ahnt sie, dass sie und der Commissario es mit einer hochbrisanten Angelegenheit zu tun haben. Und tatsächlich versucht ein mächtiger Gegner mit allen Mitteln, sie von der Wahrheit abzubringen …«Eine große schriftstellerische Leistung, ein Kräftemessen zwischen dem beliebtesten Kommissar Italiens, Salvo Montalbano, und Grazia Negro, Lucarellis eigenwilliger Ermittlerin.» LA STAMPA
