Inspector Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri Books 1-20 Collection Set - Fiction - Paperback Pan Macmillan

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This comprehensive set of the first twenty Inspector Montalbano books by Andrea Camilleri is the perfect choice for anyone looking for their next intelligent, addictive detective series to sink their teeth into. From the first novel The Shape of Water, Montalbano entered his readers' hearts, and now is your opportunity to join them. Andrea Camilleri began the series in 1994, and it was first published in English in 2002. It was adapted into a long-running TV series, which has aired on BBC Four and is available on iPlayer. Camilleri died in 2019, and the 28th and final Inspector Montalbano novel was published in 2021. Titles in this set: The Shape of Water The Terracotta Dog The Snack Thief The Voice of the Violin Excursion to Tindari The Scent of the Night Rounding the Mark The Patience of the Spider The Paper Moon August Heat The Wings of the Sphinx The Track of Sand The Potter's Field The Age of Doubt The Dance Of The Seagull The Treasure Hunt Angelica's Smile Game of Mirrors Blade of Light A Voice in the Night Description: The Shape of Water The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavour. But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello, one of the local movers and shakers, apparently deceased in flagrante at the Pasture. The coroner's verdict is death from natural causes - refreshingly unusual for Sicily. But Inspector Salvo Montalbano, 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 - even though he's being pressured by Vigata's police chief, judge, and bishop. Picking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendetta firepower, and carefully planted false clues, Montalbano can be relied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of the matter. The Terracotta Dog The Terracotta Dog opens with a mysterious tête-à-tête with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and some dying words that lead Inspector Montalbano to a secret grotto in a mountain cave where two young lovers dead fifty years and still embracing are watched over by a life-size terracotta dog. Montalbano’s passion to solve this old crime takes him, heedless of personal danger, on a journey through the island’s past and into a family’s dark heart amid the horrors of World War II. Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Salvo Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic, engaging take on Sicilian small-town life and his genius for deciphering the most enigmatic of crimes. ‘The novels of Andrea Camilleri breath out the sense of place, the sense of humour, and the sense of despair that fill the air of Sicily. To read him is to be taken to that glorious, tortured island’ Donna Leon ‘Both...