Dominique Y. (NaughtyLittleMinx) reviewed on 8/30/2005 + 103 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

This was my first book by the author and from the very first pages you feel an affinity for the inspector. Montalbano's latest case begins with a mysterious têtê à têtê with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and dying words that lead him to an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. There, the inspector finds two young lovers, dead for fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-sized terra-cotta dog. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him on a journey through Sicily's past and into one family's darkest secrets. This is an easy book to get into. The author easily takes you through Sicilian temperament.

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