The Smell of the Night“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 Half the retirees in Vigáta have invested their savings with a financial wizard who has disappeared, along with their money. As Montalbano investigates this labyrinthine financial scam, he finds himself at a serious disadvantage: a hostile superior has shut him out of the case, he’s on the outs with his lover Livia, and his cherished Sicily is turning so ruthless and vulgar that Montalbano wonders if any part of it is worth saving. Drenched with atmosphere, crackling with wit, The Smell of the Night is Camilleri at his most addictive. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 15 |
Section 3 | 29 |
Section 4 | 43 |
Section 5 | 58 |
Section 6 | 72 |
Section 7 | 86 |
Section 8 | 100 |
Section 11 | 141 |
Section 12 | 156 |
Section 13 | 170 |
Section 14 | 184 |
Section 15 | 198 |
Section 16 | 212 |
Section 17 | 223 |
Section 18 | 225 |
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