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August Heat (2006)

by Andrea Camilleri(Favorite Author)

3.96 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0143114050 (ISBN13: 9780143114055)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Penguin

series

Commissario Montalbano

review 1: Another Camilleri down. This was an interesting one as our poor dear inspector faces a test of morals. There is also the occasional snide comment about Italy and its politics which I am beginning to recognise and enjoy. Oh, and a shout out to Sjowall and Walloo. I do like it when I recognise that Camilleri clearly also reads the other authors that I've enjoyed. I'm beginning to see that crime novelists of a certain persuasion are often keen political commentators. Not just the butler did it!
review 2: This is the second Montalbano novel I've read and I loved this even more than the first! Just stellar writing. I love these books in large part because of the lavish descriptions of food which rival the actual crime details. The plot of this Montalbano in particul... morear is just Grade-A beef. There is so much happening here, and the way Camilleri writes about the heat is, from page one, a master class. It isn't just that it's hot behind the events taking place in this, the tenth entry in the Montalbano oeuvre, it's that there's all kind of crazy shit happening in the fucking heat! I don't think I've ever read an author who has done such a good job incorporating an element into the story as Camilleri does here with that goddamned suffocating heat! Likely will hold up as one of the best in the series, which just adds to the already difficult time I have putting these books down. The take away? Don't start what you can't finish (and don't visit Sicily in August). less

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