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Zusatztext Montalbano's colleagues! chance encounters! Sicilian mores! even the contents of his fridge are described with the wit and gusto that make this narrator the best company in crime fiction today Informationen zum Autor Andrea Camilleri was one of Italy's most famous contemporary writers. The Inspector Montalbano series, which has sold over 65 million copies worldwide, has been translated into thirty-two languages and was adapted for Italian television, screened on BBC4. The Potter's Field , the thirteenth book in the series, was awarded the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger for the best crime novel translated into English. In addition to his phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano series, he was also the author of the historical comic mysteries Hunting Season and The Brewer of Preston . He died in Rome in July 2019. Klappentext The inspector gazed at it, spellbound. A pyramid of mud. The perfect representation, at once concrete and symbolic, of everything that, little by little, was becoming clearer in his head . . . It's been raining for days in Vigàta, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overtaking Inspector Montalbano's beloved hometown, sweeping across the land and leaving only a sea of mud behind. It is on one of these gloomy days that a man - a Mr Giugiù Nicotra - is found dead, his body discovered in a large sewage tunnel with a bullet in his back. The investigation is slow and slippery to start with, but when the inspector realizes that every clue he uncovers is leading to the same place - the world of public spending and, with it, the Mafia - the case picks up pace. And there's one question that keeps playing on Montalbano's mind: in his strange and untimely death, was Giugiù Nicotra trying to tell him something? 'Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today . . . simply superb' Sunday Times Zusammenfassung Inspector Montalbano must unravel the mystery of a dead body discovered in a sewage tunnel in the twenty-second novel in Andrea Camilleri's critically acclaimed series....
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Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today . . . Simply superb Sunday Times
