The Smell of the Night
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780786150540 (0786150548)
Publish date: November 1st 2005
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Italy,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
Italian Literature
Series: Inspector Montalbano (#6)
Rating: 4* of fiveThe Book Report: Salvo Montalbano and the Vigata police force have a strange case, one that's not their case and not particularly important seeming as the Common Knowledge has already given it an ending: A Ponzi-scheme swindler comes home to Vigata after being away most of his life...
This novel in his Montalbano series is the whimsiest of them all by far. The story takes a surreal tone right from the start and all through the book Montalbano seems on a illicit substance trip. The mystery is a pretty simple one, an accountant disappears with a lot of the people's money in Vigata....