The Patience of the Spider
Andrea Camilleri
Translated by Stephen Sartarelli
10 December 2010Imprint: Mantle
Synopsis
The Patience of the Spider is the eighth novel in Andrea Camilleri's wryly humorous Inspector Montalbano series.
Chief Inspector Montalbano is on enforced sick leave. But when a local girl goes mysteriously missing, the whole community takes an interest in the case. Why are the kidnappers so sure that the girl's impoverished father and dying mother will be able to find a fortune? The ever-inquisitive Montalbano steps in, to get to the heart of the matter in his own inimitable style.
The Patience of the Spider is followed by the ninth novel in the series, Paper Moon.
Details
10 December 2010400 pages
9780330462259Imprint: Mantle
Reviews
Montalbano's colleagues, chance encounters, Sicilian mores, even the contents of his fridge are described with the wit and gusto that make this narrator the best company in crime fiction todayGuardian
Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today . . . Simply superbSunday Times
One of fiction's greatest detectives and Camilleri is one of Europe's greatest crime writersDaily Mail
