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Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim's friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help but appreciate. But it is a reclusive violinist who holds the key to the murder. Montalbano does not disappoint, bringing...
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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...
3) August Heat
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When a colleague extends his summer vacation, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is forced to stay in Vigàta and endure the August heat. Montalbano's long-suffering girlfriend, Livia, joins him with a friend - husband and young son in tow - to keep her company during these dog days of summer. But when the boy suddenly disappears into a narrow shaft hidden under the family's beach rental, Montalbano uncovers something terribly sinister. As the inspector spends...
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Winning fans in Europe and America for their dark sophistication and dry humor, Andrea Camilleri's crime novels are classics of the genre. Set once again in Sicily, The Patience of the Spider pits Inspector Montalbano against his greatest foe yet: the weight of his own years. Still recovering from the gunshot wound he suffered in Rounding the Mark, he must overcome self-imposed seclusion and waxing self-doubt to penetrate a web of hatred and secrets...
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While swimming along the Sicilian shore, Inspector Montalbano discovers a corpse. His pursuit of the cause of death intersects with the inquiry into a hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of a young boy who may have been victimized by human traffickers. The buying and selling of immigrant children, for slave labor, sex, and as a source of illegal organ transplants, is part of the evil underside of the opening of Europe's borders. That, combined...
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Inspector Salvatore Montalbano wakes from strange dreams to find a gruesomely bludgeoned horse carcass in front of his seaside home. When his men come to investigate, the carcass has disappeared, leaving only a trail in the sand. Then his home is ransacked, and the inspector is certain that the crimes are linked. As he negotiates both the glittering underworld of horse racing and the Mafia's connection to it, Montalbano is aided by his illiterate...
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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...
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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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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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Andrea Camilleri
Das Ritual der Rache
Commissario Montalbano vermisst einen guten Freund
gelesen von Bodo Wolf
Im Umland von Vigàta liegt ein Toter in einem Plastiksack. Wenig später meldet eine Frau ihren Ehemann als vermisst. Commissario Montalbano fühlt sich an den biblischen Verrat des Judas erinnert. Denn: Der Leichnam wurde in dreißig Teile zerstückelt, im sogenannten Töpferland verscharrt, der Schuss in den Nacken deutet auf Rache wegen...
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Witty and entertaining, the Montalbano novels by Andrea Camilleri—a master of the Italian detective story—have become favorites of mystery fans everywhere. In this latest installment, an unidentified corpse is found near Vigàta, a town known for its soil rich with potter's clay. Meanwhile, a woman reports the disappearance of her husband, a Colombian man with Sicilian origins who turns out to be related to a local mobster. Then Inspector Montalbano...
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The latest from the New York Times bestselling author of The Potter's Field and The Age of Doubt With Inspector Montalbano's most recent outings hitting the New York Times bestseller list, Andrea Camilleri's darkly refined Italian mysteries have become favorites of American crime novel fans. This latest installment finds Montalbano in search of his missing right-hand man. Before leaving for vacation with Livia, Montalbano witnesses a seagull...
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Im Fahrwasser einer Luxusjacht wird ein namenloser Toter angespült. Die mondäne Schiffskapitänin wirkt ebenso mysteriös wie ihre Besatzung. Aber das ist nicht der einzige Grund, weshalb Commissario Montalbano so häufig am Hafen von Vigàta
anzutreffen ist. Denn Salvo ist verliebt - und zwar in Laura, die Chefin der Hafenkommandatur. Doch wie sagt er's ihr? Wie sagt er?s seiner Livia? Und wie soll er hinter das Geheimnis des Toten kommen, wenn...
14) 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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Der Todestanz einer Möwe als Vorbote düsterer Ereignisse? Leider nur zu wahr, denn kurze Zeit später erreicht Commissario Montalbano die Nachricht vom Verschwinden Fazios, seines wichtigsten Mitarbeiters im Polizeikommissariat. Offenbar war
Fazio in einen Hinterhalt geraten - mit bisher unbekanntem Ausgang. Die Ermittlungen führen Montalbano ins abgelegene Ödland der Mafia, wo ihm zwei namenlose Tote Rätsel aufgeben. Ebenso wie eine junge Pflegerin...
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Eine Serie von Diebstählen sorgt für Aufregung im sizilianischen Vigàta. Als Commissario Montalbano im Rahmen der Ermittlungen Bekanntschaft mit der jungen Angelica Cosulich macht, fühlt er sich schlagartig in seine Jugend zurückversetzt: Mit ihrem wallenden Blondhaar erinnert sie ihn an die Heldin selben Vornamens aus Ariosts Epos Der rasende Roland, die ihm seinerzeit die Träume versüßt hat. Doch hinter dem betörenden Lächeln der Signorina...
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Ein greises Geschwisterpaar in religiösem Wahn, das Schüsse abfeuert, sobald jemand sich der Wohnung nähert. Eine massakrierte Gummipuppe, die Rätsel aufgibt - umso mehr, als sich in einem anderen Viertel Vigàtas eine zweite Puppe mit denselben Blessuren findet. Anonyme Botschaften in Reimform, die im Kommissariat eingehen. Commissario Montalbano ahnt schon bald, dass ein weit zurückliegender Fall erneut ans Tageslicht gerückt ist: das mysteriöse...
18) Game of Mirrors
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Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano novels have become an international sensation, with fans eagerly awaiting each new installment. In this eighteenth book of the New York Times bestselling series, someone is toying with Italy's favorite detective. 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...
19) A beam of light
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"Inspector Montalbano is troubled by a strange dream as three crimes demand his attention and a beautiful gallery owner threatens his longtime relationship with Livia"--
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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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