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The Shape of Water
- Inspector Montalbano, Book 1
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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The Shape of Water
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Publisher's Summary
The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series featuring Inspector Montalbano.
The goats of Vigàta once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavour. But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello, one of the local movers and shakers, apparently deceased in flagrante at the Pasture. The coroner's verdict is death from natural causes - refreshingly unusual for Sicily.
But Inspector Salvo Montalbano, as honest as he is streetwise and as scathing to fools and villains as he is compassionate to their victims, is not ready to close the case - even though he's being pressured by Vigàta's police chief, judge and bishop.
Picking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendetta firepower and carefully planted false clues, Montalbano can be relied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of the matter.
The Shape of Water is followed by the second in this phenomenal series, The Terracotta Dog.
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- mgle
- 08-02-2020
Rarely disappoints
You can't go wrong with Inspector Montalbano. The right combination of law abiding police officer and rogue rule bender when necessary. Always on the right side of morality, though.
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- Simon C Browne
- 04-07-2021
Montalbano, a favourite of mine now
Didn’t think I would like this detective and wasn’t sure how an audio book would turn out. On both assumptions I was absolutely wrong, absorbing mystery with a cop who has a heart of gold and the narration of this audiobook so good. Can’t wait to hear more!
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