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Andrea Camilleri
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Publisher | Picador | ||
ISBN | 9780330457286 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
Motionless, Montalbano waited for the surf to enter his brain and wash it clean with each breaker. At last the first light wave came like a caress, swiiissshhh, and carried away, glugluglug, Elena Sclafani and her beauty, while Michela Pardo's tits, belly, arched body and eyes likewise disappeared. Once Montalbano the man was erased, all that should remain was Inspector Montalbano - a kind of abstract function, the person who was supposed to solve the case and nothing more, with no personal feelings involved. But as he was telling himself this, he knew perfectly well that he could never pull it off. As he gets older, Inspector Montalbano is plagued by existential questions. But he doesn't have much time to wax philosophical before the gruesome murder of a man - shot in the face at point-blank range with his pants down - commands his attention.Add two evasive, beautiful women as prime suspects, dirty cocaine, dead politicians, mysterious computer codes, and a series of threatening letters, and things soon get very complicated at the police headquarters in Vigata. 'Wonderful Italian detective stories' - "Guardian". 'A magnificent series of novels' - "Sunday Times".
Review
Another Italian crime writer on the scene, but I must say an intriguing one - The Paper Moon by Andrea Camilleri has you riveted from start to finish and was translated from Italian by Stephen Sartarelli.
The sister of the victim seems to know so much about him and his many affairs and has even met some of the people involved. She then frames them as the ones to blame for what has happened to her brother. But we see Inspector Montalbano plagued by all the questions that arise from this case - he does not talk about it because he has some important suspects who seem to be involved in this murder that he doesn't want to fly the coop. Or is it the other way around?
As the saying goes the truth will out! The Paper Moon is a very well written book and I enjoyed the style of the author's writing - using many of today's technologies of computor codes and hidden bank accounts. This story is the first I have read of the Inspector Montalbano Mysteries and highly recommend them.
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