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The fifth in the hit Italian crime series, Excursion to Tindari is another darkly comic detective story featuring Inspector Montalbano. Maybe a phrase, a line, a hint somewhere would reveal a reason, any reason, for the elderly couple's disappearance. They'd saved everything . . . there was even a copy of the 'certificate of living existence', that nadir of bureaucratic imbecility . . . What was the 'protocol', to use a word dear to government offices? Did one simply write on a sheet of paper something like: 'I, the undersigned, Salvo Montalbano, hereby declare myself to be in existence', sign it, and turn it in to the appointed clerk? A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building early one morning, and an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari - two seemingly unrelated cases for Inspector Montalbano to solve amid the daily complications of life at Vigata police headquarters. But when Montalbano discovers that the couple and the murdered young man lived in the same building, his investigation stumbles onto Sicily's brutal 'New Mafia', which leads him down a path more evil and more far-reaching than any he has been down before. Excursion to Tindari is followed by the sixth novel in the Inspector Montalbano series, The Scent of the Night. PRAISE FOR THE SERIES A magnificent series of novels Sunday Times There's a deliciously playful quality to the mysteries Andrea Camilleri writes about a lusty Sicilian police detective named Salvo Montalbano. New York Times Book Review Camilleri as crafty and charming a writer as his protagonist is an investigator. The Washington Post The books are full of sharp, precise characterizations and with subplots that make Montalbano endearingly human ... Like the antipasti that Montalbano contentedly consumes, the stories are light and easily consumed, leaving one eager for the next course. New York Journal of Books This series is distinguished by Camilleri's remarkable feel for tragicomedy, expertly mixing light and dark in the course of producing novels that are both comforting and disturbing. Booklist

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PublisherPan Macmillan

ISBN-139780330493031

eBay Product ID (ePID)87288644

Product Key Features

Book TitleExcursion to Tindari

AuthorAndrea Camilleri

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicTrue Stories, Thriller, Crime, Books

Publication Year2006

Number of Pages320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height196mm

Item Width131mm

Item Weight224g

Additional Product Features

Title_AuthorAndrea Camilleri

Series TitleInspector Montalbano Mysteries

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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by trafalgar.1202
21 May, 2023
Shows Sicily in an untouristy way,
Nice book companion to the T V series, great author.
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by lesthom4430
04 Sep, 2024
Happy to read
Love this author, love the characters
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by mydogsgotnonose!
03 Aug, 2017
Never Read it
I bought it for my wife. I've never read a book in my life and I'm now an OAP. She seemed to like it though, so thumbs up all round.
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by sara-lesmal-0
06 Sep, 2024
The author is typically Italian and his ...
The author is typically Italian and his books are amusing and entertaining
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by decorator22-51
31 Mar, 2021
Inspector Montalbano
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by embicon
21 Jul, 2024
Good
His usual wonderful story telling.
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by disralf
06 Feb, 2020
Excellent
A great read!
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