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The Terracotta Dog
Inspector Montalbano mysteries (Related to this series)
- Author
- Andrea Camilleri
- Narrator
- Mark Meadows
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 10 August 2017
- Run Time
- 8 hours 29 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Set in Sicily, The Terracotta Dog is the second novel in the humorous Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri.
*Adapted for BBC4's Inspector Montalbano series*
After a cloak and dagger exchange with an ageing Mafioso, Inspector Montalbano is left haunted by the man’s dying words, which lead him to a mountainside just west of Vigàta where he unearths two young lovers, dead fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-size terracotta dog.
Heedless of personal danger, Montalbano’s drive to solve this old crime forces him on a journey through Sicily’s World War II history and to the dark heart of one family . . .
The Terracotta Dog is followed by the third title in this satirical series, The Snack Thief.
Critics Review
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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
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Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today . . . Simply superb
Sunday Times
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One of fiction's greatest detectives and Camilleri is one of Europe's greatest crime writers
Daily Mail
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Details
- Author
- Andrea Camilleri
- Narrator
- Mark Meadows
- Duration
- 8 hours 29 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 August 2017
- ISBN
- 9781509856329
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: police procedural, Comical (humorous) crime and mystery, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Thriller / suspense fiction, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: sense of place
Synopsis
Set in Sicily, The Terracotta Dog is the second novel in the humorous Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri.*Adapted for BBC4's Inspector Montalbano series*After a cloak and dagger exchange with an ageing Mafioso, Inspector Montalbano is left haunted by the man’s dying words, which lead him to a mountainside just west of Vigàta where he unearths two young lovers, dead fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-size terracotta dog.Heedless of personal danger, Montalbano’s drive to solve this old crime forces him on a journey through Sicily’s World War II history and to the dark heart of one family . . .The Terracotta Dog is followed by the third title in this satirical series, The Snack Thief.
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