The Wings of the Sphinx (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)
Food, love, and murder-Sicilian style-in the gripping eleventh installment of The New York Times bestselling Montalbano mystery series. Things are not going well for Inspector Salvo Montalbano. His relationship with Livia is once again on the rocks and-acutely aware of his age-he is beginning...
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Food, love, and murder-Sicilian style-in the gripping eleventh installment of The New York Times bestselling Montalbano mystery series. Things are not going well for Inspector Salvo Montalbano. His relationship with Livia is once again on the rocks and-acutely aware of his age-he is beginning to grow weary of the endless violence he encounters. Then a young woman is found dead, her face half shot off and only a tattoo of a sphinx moth giving any hint of her identity. The tattoo links her to three similarly marked girls-all victims of the underworld sex trade-who have been rescued from the Mafia night-club circuit by a prominent Catholic charity. The problem is, Montalbano's inquiries elicit an outcry from the Church and the three other girls are all missing.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143116608 (0143116606)
ASIN: 0143116606
Publish date: 2009-12-29
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 231
Edition language: English
It might have been that the plot was more contrived; or the antics not so funny; perhaps even the translation wasn't up-to-the-usual.Or it might have been that I was on a camping weekend with a bunch of home beer-makers, and there was much sampling of product.In any case, I didn't find this quite as...