the shape of water book andrea camilleri

'This series is distinguished by Camilleri's remarkable feel for tragicomedy, expertly mixing light and dark in the course of producing novels that are both comforting and disturbing.' Booklist Like the antipasti that Montalbano contentedly consumes, the stories are light and easily consumed, leaving one eager for the next course.' New York Journal of Books 'The books are full of sharp, precise characterizations and with subplots that make Montalbano endearingly human. 'Camilleri as crafty and charming a writer as his protagonist is an investigator.' The Washington Post 'There's a deliciously playful quality to the mysteries Andrea Camilleri writes about a lusty Sicilian police detective named Salvo Montalbano.' New York Times Book Review 'A magnificent series of novels' Sunday Times The Shape of Water is followed by the second in this phenomenal series, The Terracotta Dog. 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 coroner's verdict is death from natural causes - refreshingly unusual for Sicily.īut 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 Vigàta's police chief, judge, and bishop. 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. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavour. The goats of Vigàta once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano.

The shape of water book andrea camilleri