Excursion to Tindari (Inspector Montalbano mysteries) - Hardcover

Camilleri, Andrea

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0330493027 ISBN 13: 9780330493024

Publisher: Picador, 2006

Synopsis

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.

‘Camilleri writes with such vigour and wit that he deserves a place alongside Michael Dibdin and Donna Leon, with the additional advantage of conveying an insider’s sense of authenticity’ Sunday Times

About this title

Review:

'Camilleri has produced a magnificent series of novels, capturing life in small-town Italy without resorting to cliches' -- Sunday Times

'his writing reveals a profound understanding of human weakness' -- Sunday Times

Book Description:

The fifth mystery in Camilleri's atmospheric, compelling and savagely funny crime series

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0330493027
• ISBN 13: 9780330493024
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320