The Terra-Cotta Dog
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780330526289 (0330526286)
Publish date: February 16th 2011
Publisher: Picador Usa
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
Italian Literature,
Fiction
This is that good.
Bodies pile up fast and easy in Andrea Camilleri's The Terra Cotta Dog but I understand why readers would consider the series to be on the lighter end of the mystery spectrum, straddling the genres of cozy and the grittier police procedural. For one thing, Inspector Salvo Montalbano thinks more deep...
Ich konnte nicht widerstehen und musste den zweiten Fall von Commissario Montalbano gleich hinterher lesen. Ein Mafiosi hat eine ganz ungewöhnliche Bitte an Montalbano: Er möchte, dass dieser ihn verhaftet, da jemand ihm ernsthaft nach dem Leben trachtet und so organisieren die beiden ein großartige...
Enjoyable, particularly liked the character of Montalbano, annoying that there was one main strand of the story left hanging, but I suppose that's grist for the mill in Italy. Hayes, I imagine you eating like that every day - lucky you.
Rating: 4* of fiveI am truly gruntled and kempt after reading a Montalbano novel. Sleek, in fact; one could go so far as to say consolate.The mystery, that is the modern-day mystery of arms-dealing and law-breaking, gets short shrift in this delightful book. It gets passed to Montalbano's second-in-...
14 years ago
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