A Voice in the Night
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4.4 • 41 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen. Aglow with local color, packed with flint-dry wit, as fresh and clean as Mediterranean seafood — altogether transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.” A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
Montalbano investigates a robbery at a supermarket, a standard case that takes a spin when manager Guido Borsellino is later found hanging in his office. Was it a suicide? The inspector and the coroner have their doubts, and further investigation leads to the director of a powerful local company.
Meanwhile, a girl is found brutally murdered in Giovanni Strangio’s apartment—Giovanni has a flawless alibi, and it’s no coincidence that Michele Strangio, president of the province, is his father. Weaving together these two crimes, Montalbano realizes that he’s in a difficult spot where political power is enmeshed with the mafia underworld.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The case at the heart of bestseller Camilleri's sardonic 20th mystery featuring Sicily's Insp. Salvo Montalbano (after 2015's A Beam of Light) starts innocuously with the report of a supermarket burglary. But since locals know that the enterprise is owned by the Cuffaro family, it's clear that something else is going on and, sure enough, within hours there's a related suicide of the supermarket's manager, previously accountant for several Cuffaro businesses, which probably isn't a suicide at all. As if pressure from the commissioner over Montalbano's handling of the probe weren't headache enough, a night watchman who may have seen too much vanishes. Like some of the Sicilian delicacies that provide the inspector a brief respite from his labors, Camilleri's mix of the harrowing and the humorous is at times an acquired taste particularly Montalbano's language-butchering assistant Catarella ("I beck yer partin' for distrubbin' yiz!"), who could have stepped straight out of a Marx Brothers movie.
