The Patience of the Spider - Inspector Montalbano

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 'A brother,' he said. Jesus Christ! Now where'd this brother come from? Whose brother? Montalbano had known from the start that between all the brothers, uncles, in-laws, nephews and nieces, this case was going to drive him crazy. Chief Inspector Montalbano is on enforced sick-leave. But when a local girl goes mysteriously missing, the whole community takes an interest in the case. Why are the kidnappers so sure that the girl's impoverished father and dying mother will be able to find a fortune? The ever inquisitive Montalbano steps in, to get to the heart of the matter in his own inimitable style. 'A magnificent series of novels' Sunday Times 'The best company in crime fiction today' Guardian 'One of fiction's greatest detectives . . . utterly gripping' Daily Mirror Zusammenfassung Inspector Montalbano returns for his eighth comic mystery.

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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 Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Camilleri, Camilleri Andrea
• Assisted by: Stephen Sartarelli (Translation)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.02.2021
• EAN: 9781529043839
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-4383-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Inspector Montalbano Mysteries; Commissario Montalbano
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Fiction in translation, Italy, Sicily, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Comic (humorous) crime and mystery, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary