The Pyramid of Mud is the twenty-second Montalbano mystery from Italy's finest crime writer,Andrea Camilleri.It's been raining for days in Vigàta,and the persistent downpours have led to violent floods overtaking the Inspector's beloved hometown,sweeping across the land and leaving only a sea of mud behind. It is on one of these endless grey days that a man - a Mr Giuglù Nicotra - is found dead. His body discovered in a large sewage tunnel,half naked and with a bullet in his back. The investigation is slow and slippery to start with,but when Montalbano realizes that every clue he uncovers and every person he interviews is leading to the same place: the world of public spending - and with it,the Mafia - the case begins to pick up pace.But there's one question that keeps playing on Montalbano's mind: in his strange and untimely death,was Giuglù Nicotra trying to tell him something
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Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781447298366Number of pages: 288Weight: 202 gDimensions: 196 x 131 x 18 mm
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Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today...Simply superbOne of fiction's greatest detectives and Camilleri is one of Europe's greatest crime writersMontalbano'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
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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