The Shape of Water
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142002391 (0142002399)
Publish date: November 5th 2002
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Series: Inspector Montalbano (#1)
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.
Ein unterhaltsamer Krimi mit einer überraschenden Auflösung. Nett zum Zwischendurchlesen :)
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...
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