Inspector Montalbano Mysteries: The Smell of the Night (Audiobook)

from cathyskye

First Line: The shutter outside the wide-open window slammed so hard against the wall that it sounded like a gunshot. When Emanuele Gargano, owner of King Midas Associates, disappears after bilking millions of lire from people in a pyramid scheme, it's up to Inspector Salvo Montalbano to get to t...

from dboydell

Camilleri writes with a light touch. In these books its not the plot but rather the evocation of place, the characterisation, the love of food that satisfies. Even the child-like cover design is pleasing. This is the third Inspector Montalbano book that I have read, and they appear to be getting ...

from bcquinnsmom

"Did you say the smell of the night?" "Yes. The night changes smells, depending on the hour." Montalbano's back and once again in his sixth case of the series. This time he gets involved with the case of a missing financial "genius" who had gained the trust of several investors and then promptly ...

from browner56

Salvo Montalbano, the quick-witted, sardonic police inspector at the center of Andrea Camilleri's wonderful series of mystery novels, is one of the most appealing and enigmatic heroes in the crime fiction genre. He is always highly principled in his pursuit of justice, but he is not above breakin...

from tututhefirst

Salvo Montalbano is faced with a financial crime and a missing person. An investment guru has evidently milked hundreds of people out of their life savings, failed to pay them their expected dividends and absconded with the money. Is is a Ponzi scheme gone seriously awry? The only person who beli...