The Sunday Times bestselling, twenty-eighth and final novel in the thrilling, wickedly funny Inspector Montalbano Mysteries series by Andrea Camilleri.'One of fiction's greatest detectives' – Daily MailWhen Inspector Montalbano receives an early-morning phone call it proves to be the start of a very...

Camilleri, Andrea

Macmillan Children's Books

Campbell Books Ltd

Pan Books

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

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 . . .

The Sunday Times bestselling, twenty-eighth and final novel in the thrilling, wickedly funny Inspector Montalbano Mysteries series by Andrea Camilleri.
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 . . .
'Camilleri has contrived a fitting goodbye to a dear old friend who operates, to the very last, on his own terms' - Guardian

2024-09-21