This could have been the best book in the world and all I would have remembered is the thing about cockroaches. It's literally wiped my mind clean of any other detail about this book. From the two stars, I'm guessing it wasn't one of my favourites. I think the hight point of this series for me is...
Enjoy all the Montalbano books. This one is a fairly light, quick read. As always, Salvo gets onto the wrong foot with Livia (I can't decide whether she is long-suffering or unreasonable); having found a house for her friends to rent for a summer holiday, everything goes wrong. The intense August...
August Heat, book # 10 to feature Inspector Salvo Montalbano, is hands down my favorite book of the entire series. In a scorching, palpable August heat, Montalbano is volunteered by Livia to find a seaside summer vacation rental (a nearly impossible task) for her friend Laura and Laura's family ...
Romanzo letto nel 2007. A parte l'interrogatorio di Montalbano a Morabito, uno dei personaggi coinvolti, che è una pagliacciata mal riuscita, e quell'irritante e persistente vena di maldicenza, di pettegolezzo, di insinuazione, di accenni buttati lì alla "cazzo di cane" nei confronti dei politici...
For me, one of the better books in the series. There is a lot going on here, but as usual, ever-so-charmingly done. And some genuinely funny - at times you can't help but imagine the events as he describes them and chuckle. Out loud. Which i don't do very often. Some moments of genius and our cha...
Ossi (n�vuri) di siccia Dev'esserci una specie di principio dei vasi comunicanti anche nelle lettere; Camilleri sta travasando il mitologico, l'incerto, i colori pastello, il favolistico nei suoi romanzi "laterali" e conseguentemente il prosciugato Montalbano diviene pi� deciso e pratico. Al Sal...
I like these books. As a middle-aged man, I understand what Montalbano is going through as he sees himself getting older, possibly less desirable to women, and still putting up with a bureaucracy that gets in the way more than anything else. The criminal aspect of this book is weak, and the story...
I had saved this new Montalbano to read while Viking in Sicily, and it didn't disappoint. If I criticise then the story isn't as strong as the character (singular), and the other role players. However, Conan-Doyle had the same difficulty. Salvo's character gets stronger by he book. He is the arch...
All the usual elements of the Montalbano books - Livia arrives for an arranged few days off with Salvo, and not only does it not happen but he completely forgets all about her. She removes herself from the scene - for once without too many harsh words. There is the food, the mystery, and the stra...
a further installment of police inspector montabal and his small office of cops in Sicily. this one particularly seems to have lots of "funny" dialog a la marx brothers, and as in many of the previous mysteries, a case ripped from the headlines of a corrupt and failing italian state. this one ch...
A real page-turner; I finished this book in a day, which is almost unheard of for me. It's a good Montalbano story -- and one of the funniest in some time. I laughed out loud several times.The plot is complex but not beyond comprehension, and the police procedures are carefully delineated. I w...
Montalbano deve indagare sul misterioso Signor Zeta mente di una banda che mette a segno furti, nell'indagine il commissario dovrà "combattere" con Angelica che da vittima del furto passa ad avere un ruolo importante nell'indagine, Montalbano la paragonerà continuamente al personaggio di nome ang...
Latest book in the Inspector Montalbano series...set in Sicily, translated from Italian...a string of burglaries with a side order of great food, humor, and Sicilian history and travel info. I had forgotten that the author provides a "notes" section in the back of the book, kind of a glossary for...
Más cuentitos de Montalbano. Cuentitos de todos colores, cuentitos para todos los gustos. Sin embargo, como pertenecen a la primera era del personaje, son en general buenos cuentos. Historias en las que lo mismo el comisario tiene una puntada genial que mete la pata hasta el fondo, o en las que i...
En un mundo en el que las novelas de detectives han tendido a incrementar su complejidad mediante la inserción desmedida de artefactos de alta tecnología, de pruebas que involucran fluidos corporales diversos, materiales, químicos o hasta la densidad de los suspiros, pasando por la exhibición de ...
This is an anthology of short stories and longer novellas. The two long novellas stand out : L'homme blessé and Le quatrième secret. The first one is a telling tale of innocence and what hides behind a pretty, young face and the second is a wonderful, wonderful piece of how Catarella is just one ...
Camilleri is best known for his Commisario Montalbano series, but relatively recently, inspired, he says, by the publication of the Report on the Social and Economic Conditions of Sicily (1875-1876), he has written two novels, Hunting Season and The Brewer of Preston, both set in this time period...