The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. In Inspector Montalbano's coastal town of Vigata,a surge of migrants have been coming in by boat,and all the town's hands are on deck to help the arrivals. At the heart of the scene are the police - on the lookout for the people smugglers responsible - and long night-shifts are rendering Inspector Montalbano and his officers exhausted. Then one night,while Montalbano is enduring yet another gruelling stint at the port,a separate crime is committed - unexplained,unexpected,and unpleasant. Elena,the dressmaker at the town's famous tailors,has been found dead - slaughtered by her own scissors . . .As a swell of desperate people arrive in search of a better life,Inspector Montalbano finds himself trying to unravel the mystery of who murdered the dressmaker. But as he makes his enquiries,the Inspector can't help but wonder: what will happen if he keeps tugging on this thread And what will he find at the end of the line
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781529001839Number of pages: 304Weight: 216 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
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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
'Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today...Simply superb.'- Sunday Times
'One of fiction's greatest detectives and Camilleri is one of Europe's greatest crime writers.'- Daily Mail
Andrea Camilleri
The creator of the irascible yet endearing Sicilian police chief Salvo Montalbano,Andrea Camilleri was an Italian crime writer whose engrossing novels are bathed in an evocative Mediterranean glow.
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