CAMILLERI ANDREA

(P/B) EXCURSION TO TINDARI
The fifth in the hit Italian crime series by Andrea Camilleri, Excursion to Tindari is a 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... 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 o...
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(P/B) THE SICILIAN METHOD
In The Sicilian Method, Andrea Camilleri's twenty-sixth novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series, Montalbano finds his answers to a murder in a theatrical play. Mimi Augello is visiting his lover when the woman's husband unexpectedly returns to the apartment. Hurriedly, he climbs out the window and into the downstairs apartment, but from one danger to another. In the dark he sees a body lying on the bed. Shortly afterwards another body is found and the victim is Carmelo Catalanotti, a director of bourgeois dramas with a harsh repu...
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(P/B) THE PAPER TOWN
Paper Moon is the thrilling ninth instalment in the Inspector Montalbano series, by Italian author Andrea Camilleri. As he gets older, Inspector Montalbano is plagued by existential questions. But he doesn't have much time to wax philosophical before the gruesome murder of a man - shot in the face at point-blank range with his pants down -commands his attention. Add two evasive, beautiful women as prime suspects, dirty cocaine, dead politicians, mysterious computer codes, and a series of threatening letters, and things soon get very compli...
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(P/B) ROUNDING THE MARK
Rounding the Mark is the seventh darkly humorous novel in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series. Increasingly disillusioned with his government and the world in general, Inspector Montalbano is considering retirement. He is starting to feel his age, and even his favourite restaurant has closed. But when he bumps into a dead body during a bracing swim, his detective instincts are aroused once more. Particularly when the most likely identity of the victim is a man already long buried... Rounding the Mark is followed by the eighth no...
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(P/B) THE AGE OF DOUBT
Andrea Camilleri's sensational Inspector Montalbano continues in the fourteenth instalment, The Age of Doubt. A chance encounter with a strange young woman leads Inspector Montalbano to Vigata harbour - and into a puzzling new mystery. The crew of a mysterious yacht - the Vanna - due to dock in the area have discovered a corpse floating in the water, the dead man's face badly disfigured. It isn't long before Montalbano begins to become suspicious of the Vanna's inhabitants. Who is the yacht's owner, the glamorous and short-tempered Livia G...
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(P/B) THE DANCE OF THE SEAGULL
The Dance of the Seagull is the fifteenth darkly humorous adventure starring Inspector Montalbano from bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. Inspector Montalbano is awake at dawn, sitting on his porch, when his attention is caught by a seagull which falls from the sky, performing a strange dance, before lying down to die. Montalbano is perplexed by what he has witnessed and the scene hangs over him like an omen. About to depart for a holiday with his girlfriend Livia, Montalbano makes a quick trip to the police station to tie up loose ends....
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(P/B) THE POTTER'S FIELD
Winner of the CWA international Dagger Award. From the Italian crime legend, Andrea Camilleri, comes The Potter's Field, the thirteenth instalment in the Inspector Montalbano series, adapted as a major BBC4 television series. This edition featuring a stunning redesigned cover. While Vigata is wracked by storms, Inspector Montalbano is called to attend the discovery of a dismembered body in a field of clay. Bearing all the marks of an execution style killing, it seems clear that this is, once again, the work of the notorious local mafia. Bu...
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(P/B) THE TREASURE HUNT
The Treasure Hunt is the sixteenth gripping novel in Andrea Camilleri's bestselling Inspector Montalbano series. Montalbano opened the door to step out. But Gallo held him back, putting one hand on his arm. 'What's in there, Chief?' 'If it's what I think, it's something so horrific that it'll haunt your dreams for the rest of your life...' When a crazed elderly man and his sister begin firing bullets from their balcony down onto the Vig?ta street below, Inspector Montalbano finds himself a reluctant television hero. A few days later, whe...
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(P/B) THE SCENT OF THE NIGHT
Montalbano learned how hard it was to put on a wetsuit while in a dinghy speeding over a sea that wasn't exactly calm. Mimi, at the helm, looked tense and worried. "Getting seasick?" the inspector asked him at one point. "No. Just sick of myself." "Why?" "Because every now and then I realize what a stupid shit I am to go along with some of your brilliant ideas." When an angry octogenarian holds a terrified and lovelorn secretary at gunpoint, Inspector Montalbano is reluctantly drawn into the case. The secretary's boss, a financial advisor,...
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(P/B) THE WINGS OF THE SPINX
The Wings of the Sphinx is the eleventh book in the wickedly funny Inspector Montalbano series by Italian author, Andrea Camilleri. Things are not going well for Inspector Montalbano. His long-distance relationship with Livia is on the rocks, he feels himself getting even older and he's growing tired of the violence in his job. Then the dead body of a young woman is found in an illegal dump, with half her face missing. Her identity at first unknown; a tattoo of a sphinx moth on her left shoulder links her with three other girls bearing the...
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(P/B) THE PATIENCE OF THE SPIDER

(P/B) THE TRACK OF SAND
Inspector Montalbano rises one morning to find the carcass of a horse on the beach in front of his seaside home. But no sooner do his men arrive, than the body has mysteriously vanished, leaving only a track in the sand. Before long Rachele, a beguiling equestrian champion, turns up at police headquarters to report her horse missing. The horse had been stabled at the grounds of a certain Saverio Lo Duca, one of the richest men in Sicily. Lo Duca has lost one of his own horses too. Montalbano, his curiosity piqued, investigates, but before ...
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(P/B) THE SAFETY NET
Vigata is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the director asks the locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigata at that time. Meanwhile, Montalbano is grappling with a double mystery, one that emerges from the past and another that leads him into the future... Engineer Ernesto Sabatello, rummaging in the attic of his house, finds some films shot by his father between 1958 and 1963, always on the same day, 27th March, and alwa...
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(P/B) THE OTHER END OF THE LINE
The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. In Inspector Montalbano's coastal town of Vig?ta, a surge of migrants have been coming in by boat, and all the town's hands are on deck to help the arrivals. At the heart of the scene are the police - on the lookout for the people smugglers responsible - and long night-shifts are rendering Inspector Montalbano and his officers exhausted. Then one night, while Montalbano is enduring yet anot...
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(P/B) THE OTHER END OF THE LINE
The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. In Inspector Montalbano's coastal town of Vig?ta, a surge of migrants have been coming in by boat, and all the town's hands are on deck to help the arrivals. At the heart of the scene are the police - on the lookout for the people smugglers responsible - and long night-shifts are rendering Inspector Montalbano and his officers exhausted. Then one night, while Montalbano is enduring yet another gruelling st...
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3 ΥΠΟΘΕΣΕΙΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΝ ΕΠΙΘΕΩΡΗΤΗ ΜΟΝΤΑΛΜΠΑΝΟ
Με αφορμή τον εορτασμό των 20 χρόνων του επιθεωρητή Μονταλμπάνο, του πολυαγαπημένου ήρωα του Αντρέα Καμιλλέρι, κυκλοφορούν στα ελληνικά για πρώτη φορά σε έναν τόμο τρεις εμβληματικές υποθέσεις του: "Η φωνή του βιολιού", "Χάρτινο φεγγάρι" και "Το άρωμα της νύχτας". Η "Φωνή του βιολιού" αναφέρεται στην ιστορία μιας δολοφονημένης νέας γυναίκας, ενός μεγάλου μουσικού που ζει σαν ερημίτης και πολλών άλλων. Είναι πάνω απ' όλα μια ιστορία αλλαγών και ο ίδιος ο Μονταλμπάνο, στην προσωπική ζωή του οποίου σημειώνονται εξελίξεις, θα πρέπει να αποφασί...
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ΤΟ ΓΚΡΙ ΤΑΓΙΕΡ
Στη μακροχρόνια, άμεμπτη καριέρα του, το υψηλόβαθμο στέλεχος τράπεζας και αφοσιωμένος σύζυγος είχε λάβει τρεις ανώνυμες επιστολές. Οι δύο πρώτες ήταν παλιές, είχαν σταλεί πριν από δεκαετίες. Η τελευταία είχε έρθει πρόσφατα και έκανε σαφείς υπαινιγμούς για την πίστη της νεαρής και πανέμορφης δεύτερης συζύγου του, της Αντέλε, μιας σαγηνευτικής femme fatale, γυναίκας με άγριο αισθησιασμό αλλά συμπεριφορά σεμνή και τυπική σε όλα, ακόμα και στο ντύσιμο. Κανείς λοιπόν δεν απορεί που σε ιδιαίτερες περιστάσεις φοράει ένα άψογο γκρι ταγιέρ. Το ρούχ...
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Ο ΚΛΕΜΜΕΝΟΣ ΟΥΡΑΝΟΣ
Μια νεαρή, όμορφη και αινιγματική γυναίκα, ένας ηλικιωμένος σικελός συμβολαιογράφος που ίσως να κρύβει κάποιο μυστικό, και το μυστηριώδες ταξίδι του δασκάλου του Ιμπρεσιονισμού, του Πιερ-Ογκίστ Ρενουάρ, στο Αγκριτζέντο, ένα ταξίδι που κανένας ιστορικός τέχνης δεν μπόρεσε ποτέ να εντοπίσει μέσα στο χρόνο. Οι δύο ήρωες της ιστορίας, άγνωστοι μεταξύ τους, ξεκινούν μια αλληλογραφία με αφορμή τον κορυφαίο ζωγράφο και το ταξίδι του στη Σικελία, όταν η σχέση τους, που έχει πλέον οδηγηθεί σε ένα συναισθηματικό κρεσέντο, διακόπτεται άξαφνα. Δύο ιστ...
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Η ΡΟΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΩΝ
Στην παραθαλάσσια σικελική κωμόπολη Βιγκάτα ο ανθυπασπιστής των καραμπινιέρων Κόρμπο βρίσκεται αντιμέτωπος με τον φόνο ενός βοσκού. Το βράδυ της ίδιας μέρας ο Βίτο, ιδιοκτήτης ενός ορνιθοτροφείου, άνθρωπος αγαπητός στους πάντες, γυρίζοντας σπίτι, δέχεται τις αναπάντεχες σφαίρες κάποιου αγνώστου. Οι φίλοι του τον συμβουλεύουν να ψάξει τον υπαίτιο στο πρόσωπο του συζύγου τής Τζοβανίνα, μιας γυναίκας που δεν αρνείται τα κάλλη της στους νέους της κωμόπολης. Τα δύο αυτά γεγονότα, που φαινομενικά δεν έχουν καμία σχέση μεταξύ τους, θα εμπλέξουν τ...
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ΤΟ ΝΟΜΙΣΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΚΡΑΓΑΝΤΑ
"Η συγκεκριμένη ιστορία προέρχεται από ένα οικογενειακό χρονικό ή θρύλο. Σύμφωνα με αυτό, ένας μακρινός συγγενής μας, μακρινός ακόμη και μέσα στο χρόνο, ο οποίος ήταν γιατρός και νομισματολόγος, συνάντησε κάποτε έναν αγρότη που του έδειξε, προκειμένου να του χαρίσει, ένα χρυσό νομισματάκι που ανακάλυψε σκάβοντας. Ο γιατρός το αναγνώρισε αμέσως, ήταν ο μυθικός "μικρός Ακράγας". Πήγε να το πάρει και έπεσε από το άλογο, σπάζοντας το πόδι του". Αυτά σημειώνει στο τέλος του βιβλίου του ο Αντρέα Καμιλέρι. Στο μεταξύ όμως επινοεί ένα σωρό άλλα πρ...
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