Andrea Camilleri

Inspektor Salvatore Montalbano prosypaetsja ot strannogo sna i obnaruzhivaet pered svoim domom na beregu morja trup loshadi, kotoryj ischezaet vskore posle togo, kak na mesto pribyvajut kollegi Salvo. Potom v ego dome pojavljajutsja neizvestnye, i inspektor uveren, chto eti sobytija svjazany. Predannye fanaty Andrea Kamilleri i te, kto vpervye otkryvaet dlja sebja mir etikh neverojatnykh detektivov, budut ocharovany sochetaniem neortodoksalnykh metodov Montalbano, ego sklonnostju k melankholicheskomu samoanalizu i ljubovju k khoroshej ede." Ty libo ljubish Andrea Kamilleri, libo prosto ne chital ego knig. Kazhdyj detektiv v etoj zakhvatyvajuschej serii, ... vzryvaet mozg, kak vystrel chistogo kisloroda. Bozhe, khrani Kamilleri i, Bozhe, khrani Montalbano"A. Dzh. Finn, avtor bestsellera No?1 po versii New York Times"Unikalnyj Montalbano absoljutno pokorjaet"The New York Times"Kamilleri nastolko zhe khiter i ocharovatelen kak pisatel, naskolko Montalbano kak sledovatel"The Washington Post"Italiju, bez somnenij, stoit posetit snova, khotja by na stranitsakh knig etoj serii"Los Angeles Times"... Montalbano prosto ne mozhet derzhatsja podalshe ot neprijatnostej. Kamilleri daet ponjat, chto pod gruboj i jazvitelnoj obolochkoj glavnogo geroja skryvaetsja zolotoe serdtse, a vse ego emotsionalnye vspyshki, intrigi ili ugrozy napravleny tolko na poisk istiny"The Nation"Romanam Andrea Kamilleri pro komissara Salvatore Montalbano gorazdo menshe povezlo s mezhdunarodnoj slavoj, chem odnoimennomu teleserialu. I khorosho, chto Izdatelskij Dom Mescherjakova vzjalsja nakonets ispravit eto upuschenie"Mikhail Vizel, shef-redaktor GodLiteratury. RF"V chem zhe sekret etikh detektivov? Ne stolko v zakruchennom sjuzhete, skolko v nesokrushimom obajanii propechennoj na solntse Sitsilii, uzhe pochti raritetnoj juzhnoitaljanskoj natury s ee kraskami, zapakhami i personazhami, smakovaniem lakomykh detalej i mestnykh delikatesov"Ekaterina Stepantsova, perevodchik

Komissar Montalbano v smjatenii. Poka ego serdtse muchaetsja voprosom, imeet li on pravo - v ego-to vozraste - vljubitsja v prekrasnuju, moloduju, nesvobodnuju zhenschinu i chto teper s etoj ljubovju delat, ego um betsja nad ocherednym zaputannejshim delom. Zachem sluchajnaja poputchitsa nazvalas chuzhim imenem, dav pri etom kljuchi k prestupleniju? Otkuda v port priplyla lodka so strashnym gruzom? Chto tvoritsja na roskoshnoj jakhte "Vanessa"? S kazhdoj stranitsej vy i Montalbano budete vsjo blizhe k razgadke. Vot tolko poraduet li ona vas?..

Vmesto zaplanirovannogo puteshestvija inspektor Salvo Montalbano vynuzhden provesti zharkij sitsilijskij avgust v Vigate v kompanii druzej svoej podrugi Livii i ikh neposedlivogo syna. Kogda malchik vnezapno ischezaet, Salvo uchastvuet v ego poiskakh. Odnako vmeste s rebenkom on nakhodit nechto dejstvitelno uzhasajuschee... Etim letom Montalbano predstoit rassledovat odno iz samykh shokirujuschikh del v ego karere. Predannye fanaty Andrea Kamilleri i te, kto vpervye otkryvaet dlja sebja mir etikh neverojatnykh detektivov, budut ocharovany sochetaniem neortodoksalnykh metodov Montalbano, ego sklonnostju k melankholicheskomu samoanalizu i ljubovju k khoroshej ede.

The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri, and this time migrants and murder are on the Inspector's mind. In Inspector Montalbano’s coastal town of Vigàta, 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 stint at the port, a separate crime is committed – unexplained, unexpected, and unpleasant. Elena, the dressmaker at the town’s famous tailors, has been found dead – slaughtered by her own scissors . . . As a swell of desperate people arrive in search of a better life, Inspector Montalbano finds himself trying to unravel the mystery of who murdered the dressmaker. But as he makes his enquiries, the Inspector can’t help but wonder: what will happen if he keeps tugging on this thread? And what will he find at the end of the line? The Other End of the Line is followed by the twenty-fifth gripping mystery, The Safety Net.

Lawyer and journalist Matteo Teresi discovers the existence of a secret sect whose members include priests and politicians. The sect's seedy purpose is to initiate devout virgins into the rites of married life. Preying on their victims naivety, they commit ignominious acts while promising the young women divine grace. In 1901 the scandal breaks nationwide. But far from being hailed as a hero, Teresi is accused of disrupting the social order. A passionately rendered portrait of the machinations of power and the difficult destiny of a local hero.

A collection of eight ingenious short stories following Inspector Montalbano’s investigations into Sicily’s murky underworld, all served with Camilleri’s trademark wit, and Montalbano’s typical appetite. Featuring stories adapted for BBC4’s Inspector Montalbano, this is the perfect place to start reading Sicily’s favourite crime author. From the title story, Death at Sea, in which the alleged manslaughter of an engineer upon a fishing trawler leads Inspector Montalbano to uncover an even more sinister crime, Andrea Camilleri takes his readers through eight cunning cases from the Vigàtan police files. Starting with an arson attack on a hotel which leaves the distraught owner as the chief suspect; to the mysterious case of a woman who goes missing in an underpass with a million lire in her handbag; to a threat on Montalbano’s own life, as an anonymous motorcyclist takes a shot at the detective.

Three cases of overnight kidnapping baffle the Vigtan police force in Andrea Camilleris twenty-third Inspector Montalbano mystery.

The Overnight Kidnapper is the twenty-third Inspector Montalbano mystery, from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. After a hectic morning involving two rather irritating cases of mistaken identity, Inspector Montalbano finally arrives in his office ready find out what's troubling Vigàta this week. What he discovers is unnerving. A woman on her way home from work has been held up at gunpoint, chloroformed and kidnapped, but then released just hours later – unharmed and with all her possessions – into the open countryside. Later that day, Montalbano hears from Enzo, the owner of his favourite restaurant, that his niece has recently been the victim of the exact same crime. Before long, a third instance of this baffling overnight kidnapping has been reported. As far as Montalbano can tell, there is no link between the attacker and the victims. So what exactly is this mystery assailant gaining from these fleeting kidnappings? And what can he do to stop them? Montalbano must use all his logic and intuition if he is to answer these pressing questions before the kidnapper finds his next victim . . . The Overnight Kidnapper is followed by the twenty-fourth gripping mystery, The Other End of the Line.

" Camilleri's mysteries] offer quirky characters, crisp dialogue, bright storytelling--and Salvo Montalbano... a delightful creation, an honest man on Sicily's mean streets." --USA Today The day gets off to a bad start for Montalbano: while trying to break up a fight on Marinella beach, he hits the wrong man and is stopped by the Carabinieri. When he finally gets to the office, the inspector learns about a strange abduction: a woman was abducted, drugged, and then released unharmed only hours later. Within a few days, the same thing happens again. Both women are thirty years old and work in a bank. Montalbano also has to deal with an arson case. A shop has burned down, and its owner, Marcello Di Carlo, seems to have vanished into thin air. At first this seems like a trivial case, but a third abduction--yet again of a girl who works in a bank--and the discovery of a body bring up new questions.

Fundet af et skamferet hestekadaver på stranden ud for Montalbanos hus udvikler sig til en sag, der udsætter ham for prøvelser, både kulinariske og af den intime slags, og afslører en for ham ukendt verden: hestevæddeløb. Sporet i sandet er den tolvte Montalbano-krimi.

The Pyramid of Mud is the twenty-second Montalbano mystery from Italy's finest crime writer, Andrea Camilleri. It's been raining for days in Vigata, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overtaking the Inspector's beloved hometown, sweeping across the land and leaving only a sea of mud behind. It is on one of these endless grey days that a man - a Mr Giuglu Nicotra - is found dead. His body discovered in a large sewage tunnel, half naked and with a bullet in his back. The investigation is slow and slippery to start with, but when Montalbano realizes that every clue he uncovers and every person he interviews is leading to the same place: the world of public spending - and with it, the Mafia - the case begins to pick up pace. But there's one question that keeps playing on Montalbano's mind: in his strange and untimely death, was Giuglu Nicotra trying to tell him something?

The Pyramid of Mud is the twenty-second Inspector Montalbano mystery from Italy's finest crime writer, Andrea Camilleri. It's been raining for days in Vigàta, and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overtaking the Inspector's beloved hometown, sweeping across the land and leaving only a sea of mud behind. It is on one of these endless grey days that a man – a Mr Giuglù Nicotra – is found dead. His body discovered in a large sewage tunnel, half naked and with a bullet in his back. The investigation is slow and slippery to start with, but when Montalbano realizes that every clue he uncovers and every person he interviews is leading to the same place: the world of public spending – and with it, the Mafia – the case begins to pick up pace. But there's one question that keeps playing on Montalbano's mind: in his strange and untimely death, was Giuglù Nicotra trying to tell him something? The Pyramid of Mud is followed by the twenty-third gripping mystery, The Overnight Kidnapper.

"You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven't read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen...transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano." --A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Inspector Montalbano uncovers corruption and mafia ties in the world of construction and contracts On a gloomy morning in Vig ta, a call from Fazio rouses Inspector Montalbano from a nightmare. A man called Giugi Nicotra has been found dead in the skeletal workings of a construction site, a place now entombed by a sea of mud from recent days of rain and floods. Shot in the back, he had fled into a water supply system tunnel. The investigation gets off to a slow start, but all the evidence points to the world of construction and public contracts, a world just as slimy and impenetrable as mud. As he wades through a world in which construction firms and public officials thrive, Montalbano is obsessed by one thought: that by going to die in the tunnel, Nicotra had been trying to communicate something.