Commissario Montalbano (27 books in series)
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review 1: Is there anyone out there who knows Detective Chief Inspector Montalbano books? They are wonderful whodunnits by Andrea Camilleri and they are written in his original Sicilian dialect. Don't ask me how come I can understand it, because I still have to figure out that myself. LOL....
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review 1: Always a good time when I read an Andrea Camilleri book. “Wings of the Sphinx” is fast paced, filled with the wit and humour of the previous books in the series. Montalbano continues to be rough and tough...good at solving crimes but not so good at managing his own personal life....
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review 1: Aargh, I read these in the wrong order. Th obsessive-compulsive in me is more than slightly disturbed by this.Anyway, I've now read 12 of thes, and geez, is he prolific. I can't quite believe how many books there are in the series. This one wasn't as enjoyable as some of the othe...
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review 1: While I didn't like this Montalbano mystery as much as the last, August Heat, it is still a solid entry to the series. There is quite a lot going on here, between details regarding Montalbano's now-rocky relationship with Livia, a side story about a faked-kidnapping, and the (as ...
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review 1: Not perfect but a great read. Enjoyed the basic recipes thrown in here and there. Continue to appreciate the expanded characterizations of Fazio et al. Especially enjoyed author's apolgia for mystery novels as well as his poltical swipes at Berlosconi and current Italian politics...
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review 1: Una nueva aventura de Montalbano. Una, para variar, mejor llevada que las anteriores. Una en la que Camilleri, por momentos, reencuentra las características fundamentales del personaje, de entre las que la emotividad resulta la más importante, la que define al comisario, la que l...
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review 1: Quite the punchiest of the Montalbano novels,with our hero investigating Fazio's disappearance,& unlocking a horrifying can of worms to go with the usual character sketches & comic moments with Catarella,Adina & the lovely Livia! Salvu finds solutions by skill & subterfuge,& in o...
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review 1: The Inspector Montalbano series has a couple of recurring ingredients, and this book is no exception.1. Inspector Montalbano is cranky, intuitive and disrespectful of authority.2. The moment his long-time, and long-distance love Livia arrives in Vigata, they start to quarrel.3. ...
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review 1: Splendido. Uno dei migliori di Camilleri. Salvo è tornato in gran forma dopo i dubbi e le crisi esistenziali con i quali si era trovato a fare i conti negli ultimi romanzi. Qui ha finalmente fatto pace con se stesso e con l'età che avanza; non solo ha accettato le proprie debolez...
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review 1: Montalbano is for once getting on well with Livia - but he jeopardises this once again by falling for a younger woman. There are elements here we have seen in earlier books, but this one works well - there is a series of clever burglaries, with the perpetrator taunting Montalbano...
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review 1: I hadn't read any books by this author in the past, so when our local library offered this, I thought I would give it a try. Inspector Salvo Montalbano is absolutely wonderful and so very Italian. He loves a good meal at his favorite restaurant, Enzo's. He constantly fights the c...
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review 1: Montalbano's melancholic self reappears in this novel, number twelve in this most excellent and unique series of crime fiction, and oddly enough, it starts with a dream involving a very distorted Livia who turns into a sort of a horse. And even more oddly enough, when Montalbano ...
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review 1: #12 Inspector Salvo Montalbano - Police ProceduralAh, what a treat to return to Sicily and Montalbano, a rare honest & principled Italian police inspector. He often finds himself dealing with the disorganized Italian police and justice system.Montalbano finds a dead horse carcas...
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review 1: By the twelfth book in this series, there's really not much new to say. Each slim volume is a perfect example of the translator's art, and each gives the reader a slice of Sicily in all its beauty, its ugliness, its humor, its despair, and-- last but not least-- its glorious food...
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review 1: I'm under the impression that Camilleri started sounding like a broken record, and that's arguably the worst thing that can happen to a writer.Moreover, the novel was written 4 years ago, so it's out of sync with the latest ones about Montalbano (kind of annoying: I suppose this ...
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review 1: Oh good old Inspector Montalbano. Just the man for a good old holiday read. Irascible, greedy, but highly intelliigent and with a great team of side-kicks: fellow-detective Mimi, consciencious gopher Fazio, Montalbano's adventures are real page-turners. This time we have the m...
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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...
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review 1: An Inspector Montalbano novel. Montalbano is a police inspector in Sicily. In this one, he meets a strange young woman and drives her home when the road has been blocked by a mudslide. Later, she disappears, but it turns out her name, and everything she said about herself, is ess...
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review 1: Soy un fan de Camilleri y no solo de la saga de Montalbano. Para mi desgracia este libro lo vi como capítulo de la serie de televisión y me ha costado seguir sabiendo cómo tenía que acabar. La novela en si está bien, tiene sus momentos brillantes e hilarantes pero le faltan los r...
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review 1: Scritto nel 2008 e pubblicato solo nel 2013, quindi non tiene conto delle vicende importanti nella vita personale di Montalbano e Livia avvenute alla fine di Una lama di luce. Un'incongruenza editoriale, questa, da cui i fan della serie probabilmente finiscono con l'essere delusi...
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review 1: I love the TV series but this was the first of Camilleri's novels that I'd read. He's in his late 80s now so can be forgiven for some of the clunkiness of the plot, especially as the writing itself is vibrant and evocative. The only thing that really bugged me was the translation...
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review 1: Andrea Camilleri never fails to captivate me with his lyrical observations of reality - whether it's about aging, or the perennial backdrop of the sea. This particular installment seems especially poignant. There is an air of vulnerability surrounding Montalbano, despite his tre...
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review 1: I had not marked this one as "read" when in fact I did read the book at an earlier time. I did not mind re-reading this author who makes me smile. I did love the vulnerability with regard to a beautiful woman for all those who appreciate such a "weakness." All's well that ends so...
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review 1: Love it. These stories are not really like other detective stories: the crime and the solution aren't the main point, although Salvo does achieve a result (by unorthodox means) and sees off a number of threats (including a heart-stopping moment when it seems as if someone might b...
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review 1: How to tell Livia that Montalbano does not love her anymore? How could he in the first place? Livia can only complain, argue, add acid to the sour life of a policeman. Livia is far away, and she is not a distant image of a past dream, but the bleak flavor of a failed family. Fanc...
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review 1: Sicilian Inspector Montalbano encounters a woman whose car is about to fall into a washout in the road created by a storm the previous night. She claims to be the niece of the owner of a luxury yacht scheduled to dock that afternoon in Vigàta. Not long after, the yacht does dock...
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review 1: La explosión de un pequeño artefacto frente a un almacén vacío, en pleno centro de Vigàta, y la consiguiente investigación puesta en marcha por el comisario Montalbano y su equipo, precipitan una serie de acontecimientos que se suceden de forma caótica y vertiginosa: pistas contr...