The Terra-Cotta Dog (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)

Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic take on Sicilian life. Montalbano's latest case begins with a mysterious t?t? ? t?t? with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and dying words that lead him to an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. There, the inspector finds two young lovers, dead for fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-sized terra-cotta dog. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him on a journey through Sicily's past and into one family's darkest secrets. With sly wit and a keen understanding of human nature, Montalbano is a detective whose earthiness, compassion, and imagination make him totally irresistable. more

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Posted: Jul-24-2009

It just gets better

Another engaging story from Camilleri. This one is better than his first, and not as good as his next. Again, I was distressed that it ended so soon, but that inevitably brought to my mind a wonderful Whoopi Goldberg routine from her early stand-up days.When a creepy old man tried to woo her into...

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Posted: Jul-04-2009

"Oh, seek me not within a tomb

Thou shalt not find me in the clay!I pierce a little wall of gloomTo mingle with the day? " John G. Neihardt I got a great deal of pleasure from Andrea Camilleri's first Inspector Montalbano mystery, The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, Book 1). His second Montalbano mystery (published in...

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Posted: May-08-2008

The Best

Andrea Camilleri is one of the few brilliant writers in the genre of detective fiction. His work has it all: superb writing, sensuality, food, funny and moving characters, a great detective, and a setting that allows for all kinds of innuendo and inference - Sicily. The translations are...

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Posted: Feb-10-2007

II CANE DI TERRACOTTA - THE TERRACOTTA DOG - ANDREA CAMILLERI

Inspector Salvo Montalbano of Vig?ta gets an urgent call from his best friend Greg the pimp they need to meet on the quick, Montalbano is informed that Greg was told to relay a message from Tano the Greek (the number two Mafioso) he wants a secret t?te-?-t?te. Tano the Greek had been in hiding...

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Posted: Jan-04-2007

The life of Sicily

I have become enamoured with the Italian mystery genre in the last 2-3 years. It has been an education to explore Venice with Commissario Brunetti and Florence with Marshall Guarnaccia or Sicily with Inspector Montealbano. All three authors (Donna Leon, Magdalen Nabb, and Andrea Camilleri) know...

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Posted: Dec-12-2006

more than meets the English speaking eye

Having read all the Andrea Camilleri books in Italian, I want to emphasize that the opening of Cane di Terracotta gives a perfect intro to Montalbano's character and ambience, and is an example of his best writing. All Camilleri's Montalbano books read as if set for TV or movie, with quick...

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Posted: Mar-23-2006

True Italian Flavor

This was the first Camilleri novel I read. I started it and finished it in a day. The plot is quick; it drives you along with Inspector Montalbano who is a real "character" in every sense of the word. Montalbano uses fowl language, LOVES food; he's direct, smug, unpredictable, truly Italian and a...

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Posted: Feb-27-2006

The Snack Thief

Any and all of Camilleri's books are worth reading. The series of books are set in Sicily and Salvo Montalbano, Chief Inspector of the small town of Vigata, is a footloose,brooding batchelor, who manages his sleuthing and lovelife with equal skill. He loves his Sicialian seafood and eats with...

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Posted: Nov-10-2005

Solution To Murders Half A Century Old.

"The Terra-Cotta Dog" by Andrea Camilleri, "An Inspector Montalbano Mystery". Translated by Stephen Sartarelli. Viking Penguin, 2002.In this novel about Sicily, the author, Andrea Camilleri, has his Inspector Montalbano deal with the usual Mafia crimes, attempted assassinations and actual...

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Posted: Aug-21-2005

A Slice of Sicilian

Even if Camilleri's mysteries weren't set in Sicily, they would be successful: the characters are compelling, the premise of the mystery is interesting, and the plot moves forward with the right amount of action and reflection. But the setting-Sicily in all its Godfather glory-makes The...

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