The Scent of the Night - Andrea Camilleri

The Snack Thief - Andrea Camilleri

safe and stop his girlfriend from leaving him all at the same time? I have now read a number of books in the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri, and I have to say that they are growing on me. It is rare these days that I find a new fictional detective anything other than okay. They tend to fall into categories - the miserable drunk with relationship problems and the bumbling idiot hiding a secret brilliance being the most common. Montalbano definitely falls into the latter category and in the past, I have found him annoying. However, he seems to be much less annoying in this book. He is rude to the point of being misunderstood at times, but it is all done ...

The Snack Thief - Andrea Camilleri

I discovered Andrea Camilleri and his Inspector Montalbano at a reading group last year and I have been trying to read all his novels in sequence. I was getting through them (and enjoying them thoroughly) until the middle of The Snack Thief when I abruptly hit a wall and couldn t finish it. I tried twice after that but I always got stuck at the same point. I generally read three books simultaneously - one is kept in the loo, one at my bedside and one in my work bag to read on my commute to and from work. This one was my bedside read and I seemed to fall asleep everytime I thought about picking it up! Two days ago I put it in my work bag and hey presto - I devoured it in ...

The Voice of the Violin - Andrea Camilleri

Inspector Montalbano has an eye and an ear for murder - so much so, that when a colleague prangs a parked car, and no-one does anything about it for a couple of days, he knows that there is something wrong. And sure enough there is - on breaking into the house, he finds the naked body of a beautiful woman, who was suffocated to death. The woman's husband is a respected doctor who lives miles away, as does her lover. Her only contact in the area seems to be Anna, another beautiful woman, and a set of distant relatives. When Montalbano discovers that one of the relatives has been stalking the dead woman, it seems that the case is solved. But life is never that simple in Sicily, and before ...