The Shape of Water was an interesting book. I think it's the first Italian mystery I've read, and there was a casualness about it that I liked. People and lifestyles, choices and decisions were all just sort of taken at face value. There was no judgement of morality or of right and wrong like the...
Subtle. One of the only murder mysteries that I have read that is much more interested in the “why” than the “who” and “how.” Intelligent humor. Maybe a bit smart for me. When the narrator or characters describe someone or something as being like a painting by an painter that I have never hear...
Love the fact that this has not only an author's note, but also some notes from the translator at the end explaining some of the turns of phrase, hidden meanings, and all that stuff that you'd really only understand if you were a local. A nice change of pace from US/UK type mysteries.
I really wanted to like this but the whole book just seemed awkward. I think because this was a translation phrases and other things about this book were awkward. This is supposed to be the first book in the series but to me it felt like I had jumped in the middle of the series. There were things ab...
I was again frightened of being blindsided by a PD James phenomenon of not understanding why the writer is hallowed in the world of crime writing, and whether at all the book I just finished can be considered as crime fiction. But, then I started reading Andrea Camilleri’s The Shape of Water, featur...
Fun mediterranean noir with a great protagonist and the usual assortment of sex, scandal and corruption. A good time and now I want to read all the Montalbano books! http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2012/07/review-shape-of-water-by-andrea.html
Um, if you are a feminist skip this book. If you like mysteries that are complex and that do not introduce characters conveniently for solving the puzzle, which is pretty easy to figure out, skip this book. In fact, just skip this book.
Reading this book is a thorough pleasure, a perfect blend of realism and lightness. Though the discovery of the corpse is described baldly, the story never delves into grittiness for very long. Camilleri with moments that actually made me laugh out loud, as well as loving descriptions of food and ar...
Television made me do it.No. Really. There's an Inspector Montalbano mystery series made in Italy, filmed in Sicily, and all in Italian with subtitles. Since there are no Italian people in New York City and environs, our local PBS stations AND the city's wholly owned TV station neither one carry it....
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