Comisario Montalbano: El Perro de Terracota / The Terra-Cotta Dog (Hardcover)

from sleahey

One mystery is the robbery of a large grocery store followed by the immediate recovery of the goods. The puzzle that captures Montalbano's attention, though, is the 50 year old mystery of two naked young people who were shot and then buried in a cave, seemingly at the beginning of the American ar...

from BookConcierge

Digital audio narrated by Grover Gardner Book two in the Inspector Montalbano series has him solving a 50-year-old crime. The dying words of one man lead the detective to a secret grotto in the mountains, where the remains of two young lovers lie in an embrace, watched over by a large terra-cotta...

from sjmccreary

Inspector Montalbano returns for a second session of crime solving in this charming book by Andrea Camilleri. I "read" this book via audio and found it much easier going than the first volume which I read in print. The foreign names and unfamiliar references tripped me up when I saw them more tha...

from nmele

Camillleri's second Montalbano novel entranced me. I appreciate the social and political commentary woven through these stories but what I really enjoyed in this one was the descriptions of Sicilian cooking. I wanted to put the book down and go cook several times, but the narrative and characters...

from jennorthcoast

This is the sequel to The Shape of Water, a Sicilian mystery novel featuring the fabulous Inspector Montalbano. While the first novel, even with the exceptional translation by Stephen Sartarelli, was a little difficult for me to "get into," the wacky characters and Camilleri's sardonic humor were...