The Terracotta Dog
Andrea Camilleri
Translated by Stephen Sartarelli
10 August 2017Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Synopsis
The Terracotta Dog, the second book in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series, opens with a mysterious tête-à-tête with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and some dying words that lead Inspector Montalbano to a secret grotto in a mountain cave where two young lovers dead fifty years and still embracing are watched over by a life-size...
Details
10 August 2017509 minutes
Mark Meadows
9781509856329Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Reviews
The novels of Andrea Camilleri breath out the sense of place, the sense of humour, and the sense of despair that fill the air of Sicily. To read him is to be taken to that glorious, tortured island.Donna Leon
Both farcical and endearing, Montalbano is a cross between Columbo and Chandler's Philip Marlowe, with the added culinary idiosyncrasies of an Italian Maigret.Guardian
