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Interest in Andrea Camilleri's taciturn but epicurean inspector is at an all-time high. And with three of the last five novels in the series, including the award-winning The Potter's Field, hitting the New York Times bestseller list, this latest installment is certain to up the ante and win over a multitude of new fans. In Treasure Hunt Inspector Montalbano is hailed as a hero after news cameras film him scaling a building, gun in hand, to capture...
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The new novel in the irresistible and transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series… The day gets off to a bad start for Montalbano: while trying to break up a fight on Marinella beach, he hits the wrong man and is stopped by the Carabinieri. When he finally gets to the office, the inspector learns about a strange abduction: a woman was abducted, drugged, and then released unharmed a few hours later. A few days later,...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Game of Mirrors, A Beam of Light is the nineteenth installment in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series. When Inspector Montalbano falls under the charms of beautiful gallery owner Marian, his longtime relationship with Livia comes under threat. Meanwhile, he is also troubled by a strange dream as three crimes demand his attention: the assault and robbery of a wealthy merchant's young wife, stolen works...
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A wave of refugees has arrived on the Sicilian coast, and Inspector Montalbano and his team have been stationed at port, alongside countless volunteers, to receive and assist the newcomers.
Meanwhile, Livia has promised their presence at a friend's wedding, and the inspector, agreeing to get a new suit tailored, meets the charming master seamstress Elena Biasini. But while on duty at the dock one late night, tragedy strikes, and Elena is found gruesomely...
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"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...
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"The new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series. Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the director asks the locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigata in that time. Engineer Ernesto Sabatello, while rummaging in the attic of his house, finds some films shot by his father from...
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This novel in the New York Times bestselling series has Italy's favorite detective uncovering corruption and mafia ties in the world of construction and public spending. On a gloomy morning in Vigata, a call from Fazio rouses Inspector Montalbano from a nightmare. A man called Giugiu Nicotra has been found dead in the skeletal workings of a construction site, a place now entombed by a sea of mud from recent days of rain and floods. Shot in the back,...
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The twentieth novel in the irresistible New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery seriesMontalbano investigates a robbery at a supermarket, a standard case that takes a spin when manager Guido Borsellino is later found hanging in his office. Was it a suicide? Inspector Montalbano and the coroner have their doubts, and further investigation leads to the director of a powerful local company.Meanwhile, a girl is found brutally murdered...
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Eine geheimnisvolle Geige und ein folgenreiches Versprechen
Gleich drei Frauen rauben Commissario Montalbano derzeit den Schlaf: Michela, die schöne Arztgattin, die ermordet in ihrer Villa aufgefunden wird. Ihre Freundin Anna, die Montalbano als Zeugin näherkommt, als ihm gut tut. Und Livia, die Frau, die er liebt und der er in einem schwachen Moment etwas versprochen hat: die Ehe. Dabei benötigt er doch alle Aufmerksamkeit, um die Botschaft einer...
11) The Paper Moon
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With their dark sophistication and dry humor, Andrea Camilleri's classic crime novels continue to win more and more fans in America. The latest installment of the popular mystery series finds the moody Inspector Montalbano further beset by the existential questions that have been plaguing him of late. But he doesn't have much time to wax philosophical before the gruesome murder of a man-shot at point-blank range in the face with his pants down-commands...
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Im Kommissariat des sizilianischen Küstenörtchens Vigàta gibt eine ungewöhnliche Entführung Rätsel auf: Ein vermummter Täter hat nacheinander zwei weibliche Bankangestellte überfallen, betäubt und kurz darauf unversehrt freigelassen. Dann erfährt Commissario Montalbano, dass ein junger Unternehmer nach einer Urlaubsreise mit seiner großen Liebe vermisst wird. Stehen die Ereignisse in Zusammenhang? Schon bald kommt Montalbano einem perfiden...
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Things are not going well for Inspector Salvo Montalbano. His relationship with Livia is once again on the rocks and—acutely aware of his age—he is beginning to grow weary of the endless violence he encounters. Then a young woman is found dead, her face half shot off and only a tattoo of a sphinx moth giving any hint of her identity. The tattoo links her to three similarly marked girls—all victims of the underworld sex trade—who have been...
14) Death at Sea
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Set on the Sicilian coast, a collection of eight short stories featuring the young Inspector Montalbano. In 1980s Vigata, a restless Inspector Montalbano brings his brash yet clear-sighted investigative style to eight enthralling cases. Death at Sea finds the detective seeking to bring justice to crimes-from those involving jilted lovers and deadly family affairs to an encounter featuring the assassination attempt against the Pope to murders in unexpected...
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Ein Duell auf hoher See mit rätselhaftem Motiv. Ein Eifersuchtsdrama, in dem ein Pfirsichkern eine besondere Rolle spielt. Eine Serie von Diebstählen, bei denen der Täter einen Teil der Beute zurücklässt. Schon bei der Lösung seiner ersten Fälle zeigt sich Commissario Montalbanos unbestechlicher Blick für das allerkleinste, noch so unwichtig erscheinende Detail - immer um die Wahrheit bemüht, mit viel Herz für die Nöte kleiner Sünder,...
16) Angelica's Smile
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The seventeenth installment of the beloved New York Times bestselling series. The last four books in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series have leap-frogged their way up the New York Times bestseller list, and Angelica's Smile will not disappoint. A rash of burglaries has Inspector Salvo Montalbano stumped. The criminals are so brazen that their leader, the anonymous Mr. Z, starts sending the Sicilian inspector menacing letters. Among those...
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Das hat ihm gerade noch gefehlt: Auf Wunsch seiner Verlobten Livia soll Commissario Montalbano sich für einen feierlichen Anlass einen Anzug maßschneidern lassen. Doch die allseits hochverehrte Schneiderin Elena überzeugt ihn mit Effizienz und Charme. Am nächsten Tag findet man Elena tot in ihrem Atelier, erstochen mit einer Schneiderschere. Die widersprüchlichen Aussagen mehrerer Verdächtiger abzuwägen erinnert Montalbano bald an das Entwirren...
18) The Age of Doubt
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In this, the most maritime of Montalbano's investigations, listeners will be struck by the change in the commissioner. One night, Inspector Montalbano dreams of a stormy sea, which he knows represents unease and loss of control. The next day, a boat is found in the port of Vigàta and, within it, the body of a disfigured corpse. The waterfront has also drawn in an eighty-five-foot luxury boat passengered by fifty carefree souls and a somewhat shadowy...
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Zwei mysteriöse Bombenattentate bereiten Commissario Montalbano ebenso Kopfzerbrechen wie seine neuen Nachbarn in Marinella: Liliana Lombardo kreuzt beinahe jeden seiner Wege, ihr Ehemann ist nie zu sehen. Weitere mafiöse Vorfälle und nächtliche Rendezvous der Signora mit dubiosen Galanen lassen einen Zusammenhang mit den Attentaten erahnen. Außerdem scheint jemand geschickt falsche Fährten zu legen, sodass Montalbano sich irgendwann an das...
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The sixth mystery in the Inspector Montalbano series, THE SMELL OF THE NIGHT brings the shady shenanigans of late twentieth-century international finance to small-town Sicily. A "financial wizard" entrusted with the savings of nearly half the retirees of Vigata mysteriously disappears with the money and a young man who worked for him. In a rather atypical case for Montalbano, the inspector finds himself initially shut out of the investigation by the...
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