Riccardino
- Author Andrea Camilleri
- Narrator Mark Meadows
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Run Time 7 hours and 14 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Comic (humorous) crime and mystery, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
The twenty-eighth and final novel in the thrilling, wickedly funny Inspector Montalbano Mysteries series by bestselling author Andrea Camilleri.
‘Contrary to what you think, I’m carrying out this investigation as best I can. But let’s do this: if I get stuck, if I find I can’t go forward or back, then I’ll let you know, and you can step in. And offer me a way out. You’ve gained a bit of detective work through me, haven’t you? What do you say?’
‘I’m game,’ said the Author . . .
When Inspector Montalbano receives an early-morning phone call it proves to be the start of a very trying day. For the caller expects Montalbano to arrive imminently at a rendezvous with some friends. But before he can reply the caller announces himself as someone called Riccardino and hangs up.
Later that day news comes in of a brutal slaying in broad daylight by an unknown assassin who makes his getaway on a motorbike. And when the Inspector learns of the victim’s identity – a man called Riccardino – his troubles are only just beginning. For soon he must contend with the involvement of a local bishop and a fortune teller who reports some strange goings-on in her neighbourhood.
All roads soon lead to a local salt mine but the case proves stubbornly intractable until Montalbano receives another unexpected call . . .
Critics Review
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Reading it feels like taking a restful and invigorating holiday, in the company of an infallibly amusing author who is also sufficiently wise . . . Reflecting now on the pleasure Camilleri’s body of work has given me, I’m moved to break a reviewing convention and offer to his shade a sentiment that even the most delighted critics never express: thank you
The Daily Telegraph -
The concluding instalment in the late Italian writer’s beloved Inspector Montalbano series is a chance to savour the sardonic Sicilian’s company, the vivid landscape of his region and Camilleri’s distinctive voice as he unravels his final mystery
The i -
Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today . . . Simply superb
Sunday Times -
Montalbano’s colleagues, chance encounters, Sicilian mores, even the contents of his fridge are described with the wit and gusto that make this narrator the best company in crime fiction today
Guardian -
One of fiction’s greatest detectives and Camilleri is one of Europe’s greatest crime writers
Daily Mail -
Camilleri has contrived a fitting goodbye to a dear old friend who operates, to the very last, on his own terms
Guardian
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