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 enlarge | Author: Andrea Camilleri
Publisher: Picador
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 10205
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 350
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 033044218X
EAN: 9780330442183
ASIN: 033044218X
Publication Date: June 15, 2007
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right in the middle! February 28, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Camilleri writes about our world, and this time is the turn of finance wizards and economical miracles.
The plot is simple: the owner and manager of a financial joint disappears, and thousands of people in the Vigata and Montelusa province find that their savings are gone for good. King Midas was not what he seemed, and a lot of money is gone forever. At the same time, an agency employee disappears, too. Only a woman accountant stays, obviously in love with her boss, and unable to believe that he'll never come back, that he is a thief.
Montalbano is at loss because this does not look like a mafia crime, as everybody would like to believe. He is not familiar with this kind of crimes, with this brave new world where money can be stolen but cannot be found again. He starts a complicated investigation with a surprising and somehow logical ending. Global financial capitalism is not innocent and brings its own tragedies. In the end greed, love and sex mix up in a tragedy that unlike financial economy, has face, eyes and body. That's why Montalbano's police instinct is more useful than the help of finance police.
Many of Camilleri's types are here: stupid policemen and judges, crazy people, beautiful women, greedy young people, honest old men, mafia, and above all, Sicily.
Read and enjoy!
Camilleri Does it Again February 11, 2007
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
Another steller Montalbano mystery. And now I'm starving for bizzare Italian sea food. Although I do suspect someone without even a passing knowledge of Italy might not get a lot of the innuendos and tone of the book.
a unique voice in crime fiction April 4, 2006
15 out of 21 found this review helpful
Signor Camillieri has no equal among his peers in crime fiction, although he is adamant in his admiration for Spain's maverick Montalbano.
Each new novel is a breath of fresh air into the genre I have called, "who gives a damn whodunnit?", while they are always filled with the joys and heartaches of life as it is truly deeply lived.
The synopses should be ignored, for they give no clue to the full heart at the centre of each story, and therefore one should start chronologically with Camillieri, but certainly start. I admit some are better than others and this is certainly among the best but he is as unique as Italian truffles; could one describe their taste more accurately than by opening your mouth and chewing slowly, breathing deeply?
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