Niccolo Ammaniti, Author, Andrea Camilleri, Author, Massimo Carlotto, Author Bitter Lemon Press $14.95 (319p) ISBN 978-1-904738-26-8
As De Cataldo, an appellate judge, points out in his pithy preface, corruption is a theme shared by all nine stories in this first U.S. anthology of Italian noir. The dark farce, ""You Are My Treasure Chest"" by Niccolo Ammaniti and Antonio Manzini,
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Andrea Camilleri, Author, Cyril Pearl, Author , trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Viking $21.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-03223-5
In his third Inspector Salvo Montalbano mystery to be made available in the U.S., Camilleri (The Shape of Water) displays all the storytelling skills that have made him an international bestseller. When gunfire from a Tunisian patrol boat kills a...
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $15 trade paper (278p) ISBN 978-0-14-312262-3
Early in Camilleri’s superlative 16th mystery featuring Insp. Salvo Montalbano (after The Dance of the Seagull), two reclusive religious fanatics—brother and sister Gregorio and Caterina Palmisano—start firing guns at the “sinners” in the street...
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $16 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-312644-7
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
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $15 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-312013-1
Camilleri’s clever 13th Inspector Montalbano mystery (after 2010’s The Track of Sand) opens with the discovery of an unidentified body, cut into 30 pieces, in a remote field near the Sicilian town of Vigàta, known for soil rich with potter’s clay....
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $18 trade paper (560p) ISBN 978-0-14-312162-6
For this sparkling collection, bestseller Camilleri (A Beam of Light) selected 21 of his 59 published stories featuring Chief Insp. Salvo Montalbano of Sicily's Vigàta police. The title tale, one of the longest and most satisfying, is the only one...
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $16 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-312643-0
Both personal and professional problems confound Insp. Salvo Montalbano in bestseller Camilleri’s delightful 19th mystery featuring the Sicilian policeman (after Game of Mirrors). First, Salvatore di Marta, the owner of the biggest supermarket in...
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $16 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-312377-4
In Camilleri’s amiable 18th mystery featuring Insp. Salvo Montalbano (after 2014’s Angelica’s Smile), the Sicilian policeman faces several unusual problems. A bomb explodes in front of an empty Vigàta warehouse; someone vandalizes the car of...
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $15 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-312149-7
Fans of Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano series (Angelica’s Smile, etc.) will relish this amusing, playful tale set in Vigàta, Sicily, in 1874. The citizens of Vigàta are smarting under the rule of the prefect of Montelusa, Eugenio Bortuzzi, who has
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $16 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-14-312376-7
CWA International Dagger Award-winner Camilleri’s many fans will shout “grazie” for his 17th Insp. Salvo Montalbano mystery (after 2013’s Treasure Hunt). Montalbano, who, perhaps, loves his antipasto more than his detective work, looks into a rash...
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $15 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-312653-9
First published in 1992, this bawdy little gem from the author of the Inspector Montalbano series (Treasure Hunt, etc.) shares a theme with the Alex Guinness movie classic Kind Hearts and Coronets and possesses a wit that Boccaccio would have...
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $15 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-312261-6
Camilleri's agreeable 15th Insp. Salvo Montalbano mystery (after 2012's Age of Doubt) finds the Sicilian detective sitting on the deck of his home in Vigàta, watching a seagull performing a strange death dance. The image hovers in his mind during...
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $15 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-312092-6
Near the start of Camilleri’s exquisite 14th mystery featuring Insp. Salvo Montalbano (after 2011’s The Potter’s Field), the self-deprecating, passionately foul-mouthed Sicilian policeman befriends a young woman, Vanna Digiulio, while both are...
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Andrea Camilleri, Author, Stephen Sartarelli, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Viking $21.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-670-03143-6
In his fourth mystery to feature Inspector Salvo Montalbano (The Snack Thief
, etc.), Camilleri once again thrills with his fluid storytelling and quirky characters. The irritable Sicilian detective's first challenge is to figure out a way to...
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Andrea Camilleri, Author, Stephen Sartarelli, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Viking $20.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-670-03092-7
Urbane Sicilian police inspector Salvo Montalbano, whose exploits have sold more than four million copies in Europe, makes his long overdue U.S. debut in this spare and spry English translation of the first novel in the series. When two garbage...
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli, Penguin, $14 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-311793-3
At the start of bestseller Camilleri's robust 12th Inspector Montalbano mystery (after 2009's The Wings of the Sphinx), the Sicilian inspector looks out his window and sees the carcass of a horse on the beach. The animal, he discovers, has been...
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Andrea Camilleri, Author, Stephen Sartarelli, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin $14 (231p) ISBN 978-0-14-311660-8
Bestseller Camilleri's sublime and darkly humorous 11th whodunit featuring Chief Insp. Salvo Montalbano (after 2009's August Heat
) finds the 56-year-old Sicilian policeman in the midst of a serious crisis with his significant other, Livia.
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Andrea Camilleri, Author, Stephen Sartarelli, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin $14 (278p) ISBN 978-0-14-311405-5
Camilleri’s 10th mystery to feature Sicilian Insp. Salvo Montalbano (after 2008’s Paper Moon
) cleverly balances a compelling story line with engaging characters. Urged by his girlfriend, Livia, to find a summer rental for a friend of...
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Andrea Camilleri, Author, Stephen Sartarelli, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin $13 (264p) ISBN 978-0-14-311300-3
At the start of Camilleri’s wry ninth Insp. Salvo Montalbano procedural (after 2007’s The Patience of the Spider
), the irascible detective is hoping for a quiet day at his Vigàta office when a visitor, the beguiling Michela Pardo,
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Andrea Camilleri, Author, Stephen Sartarelli, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin $13 (244p) ISBN 978-0-14-311203-7
Camilleri's agreeable eighth contemporary police procedural featuring the crotchety but insightful Inspector Montalbano finds the Italian detective at home in Marinella enjoying the ministrations of his wife, Livia, after he was shot by a child...
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Andrea Camilleri, Author, Stephen Sartarelli, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin $13 (264p) ISBN 978-0-14-303748-4
Camilleri's gripping seventh Inspector Montalbano mystery (after 2005's The Smell of the Night
) successfully integrates serious political themes with a hero reminiscent of Colin Dexter's beloved Inspector Morse. Frustrated by his...
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Andrea Camilleri, Author, Stephen Sartarelli, Translator , trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin $12 (229p) ISBN 978-0-14-303620-3
An intricate plot and a large cast of memorable characters help lift the sixth Inspector Montalbano mystery from Camilleri (The Snack Thief
, etc.). When a ragioniere
(financier) disappears with millions of lire after defrauding many investors in a
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Andrea Camilleri, Author, Grover Gardner, Read by , trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli, read by Grover Gardner. Blackstone Audio $55 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4417-1688-0
Happily, Grover Gardner eschews even a hint of an Italian accent in narrating the 11th installment of this series celebrating the life, loves, and investigations of the charmingly eccentric Sicilian Insp. Salvo Montalbano. Nearly every word in this...
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $16 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-313113-7
Two women are abducted, held overnight, and released without harm or ransom demands, stumping Sicily’s Insp. Salvo Montalbano and his colleagues, in bestseller Camilleri’s welcome 23rd novel featuring the world-weary policeman (after 2018’s The...
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $16 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-313496-1
Bestseller Camilleri’s 25th outing for Insp. Salvo Montalbano (after 2019’s The Other End of the Line) offers a rich, nuanced mix of plot elements. Besides looking into a mysterious but nonfatal terror attack on a school, Montalbano has an unsought...
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Andrea Camilieri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $16 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-1431-3497-8
At the start of the late bestseller Camilieri’s enjoyable 26th mystery featuring Sicily’s Insp. Salvo Montalbano (after The Safety Net), Montalbano’s colleague Mimi Augello calls on the inspector early one morning to report that he discovered a dead
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Europa (PRH, dist.), $16 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-60945-391-6
Bestselling and award-winning Italian author Camilleri (the Inspector Montalbano series) offers a marvelous historical drama based on a true but little-known episode of 17th-century Sicilian history. In 1677, Sicily is ruled by Spain. When the...
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $16 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-312665-2
That prosperous accountant Cosimo Barletta—the initial murder victim in bestseller Camilleri’s entertaining 21st mystery featuring Sicily’s Insp. Salvo Montalbano (after 2016’s A Voice in the Night)—was both shot and poisoned is only one of the...
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $16 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-312808-3
The shooting death of Giugiù Nicotra, his body found inside a huge pipe on a muddy construction site, propels Camilleri’s irresistible 22nd Inspector Montalbano mystery set in Vigàta, Sicily (after A Nest of Vipers). Nicotra, the chief accountant...
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Europa (PGW, dist.), $14 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-60945-423-4
Camilleri, best known for his popular Inspector Montalbano mysteries, offers a vivid historical novel based on the true story of the five Sacco brothers who fought the violence of the Mafia, the treachery of the fascists, and the corruption of the...
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $16 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-310881-8
Set in 1980s Vigàta, Sicily, the eight stories in this delightful collection from CWA International Dagger Award–winner Camilleri (The Pyramid of Mud), show a young Salvo Montalbano encountering tricky situations and crimes that can’t always be...
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Andrea Camillieri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $16 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-14-313377-3
The dramatic 24th series novel from bestseller Camillieri (after The Overnight Kidnapper) finds Insp. Salvo Montalbano and his team at their breaking point as they deal with hundreds of refugees pouring into the Sicilian town of Vigàta in barely...
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $16 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-1431-3618-7
Bestseller Camilleri’s charming 27th mystery featuring Insp. Salvo Montalbano (after 2020’s The Sicilian Method) begins when a factory worker in Vigàta, Sicily, angry over recent layoffs, hangs himself. That the factory’s owner, Giovanni Trincanato,
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Andrea Camilleri, trans. from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli. Penguin, $17 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-1431-3679-8
In an amusing metafictional twist, Camilleri (1925–2019) plays a part in his elegiac 28th and final mystery featuring Sicilian police inspector Salvo Montalbano (after The Cook of the Halcyon). Just shy of five o’clock in the morning, Montalbano’s...
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