Riccardino, Andrea Camilleri
Riccardino, Andrea Camilleri
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Riccardino

Author: Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 6 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/14/2021

Synopsis

The long-awaited last novel in the transporting and beloved New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano seriesMontalbano receives an early-morning phone call, but this time it’s not Catarella announcing a murder, but a man called Riccardino who’s dialed a wrong number and asks him when he’ll be arriving at the meeting. Montalbano, in irritation, says: “In ten minutes.” Shortly after, he gets another call, this one announcing the customary murder. A man has been shot and killed outside a bar in front of his three friends. It turns out to be the same man who called him.Thus begins an intricate investigation further complicated by phone calls from “the Author” in a tour de force of metafiction and Montalbano’s last case.

About Andrea Camilleri

Andrea Camilleri (1925–2019) wrote the internationally bestselling and award-winning Inspector Montalbano mysteries, as well as historical fiction.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner has recorded more than 650 audiobooks since beginning his career in 1981.  He's been named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" as well as a "Golden Voice" by AudioFile magazine.  Gardner has garnered over 20 AudioFile Earphones Awards and is the recipient of an Audio Publishers Association Audie Award, as well as a three-time finalist.  In 2005, Publishers Weekly deemed him "Audiobook Narrator of the Year." Gardner has also narrated hundreds of audiobooks under the names Tom Parker and Alexander Adams.  Among his many titles are Marcus Sakey's At the City's Edge, as well as Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and John Irving's The Cider House Rules.  Gardner studied Theater and Art History at Rollins College and received a Master's degree in Acting from George Washington University.  He lives in Oregon with his significant other and daughter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nunzia on July 23, 2020

Leggere questo libro ha fatto davvero male, perché non c'è niente di più brutto che sapere che sarà l'ultima volta che incontrerai tutti quei personaggi che hai amato per tanti anni. Di protagonisti "uccisi" dai propri creatori, nella letteratura gialla, ce ne sono un sacco (a cominciare da Sherlock......more

Goodreads review by venticinque_lettori on July 27, 2020

Chi critica questo libro non ha capito nulla di Camilleri. Chapeau, Maestro, per il modo in cui hai deciso di congedare te stesso e la tua creatura più amata.......more

Goodreads review by Dave on January 27, 2022

As with #27, The Cook of the Halcyon, I do not count this as really part of the end of the series focused on Inspector Salvo Montalbano. The author, Andrea Camilleri, wrote the book, at 80, intending it to be the ending of the series, (as Agatha Christie wrote her last book about Hercules Poirot), t......more

Goodreads review by Arnault on July 22, 2020

Ecco finito. È come se mi fosse venuto a mancare un caro amico. Tristezza e nostalgia. Non mi voglio dilungare per timore di dare indicazioni superflue e quindi guastare il piacere della lettura. Un autore di riferimento: Luigi Pirandello.......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on December 24, 2021

The series featuring Police Inspector Salvo Montalbano ends not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a shrug. Author Andrea Camillieri, who died in 2019, had written this novel (the 28th in the series) in 2005, destined to be the last one, to be published posthumously. A man is killed in front......more

Quotes

“Incisive wit colors this insightful and intriguing farewell. The sad, poetic ending is perfect.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“The long-running and much-loved Salvo Montalbano series, set in Vigàta, Sicily, concludes with an astonishing, meta-infused narrative that integrates the series’ creator, Camilleri himself, into the story…What follows will delight Camilleri’s legions of fans, many of whom have long felt a meta-infused connection of their own with Montalbano, his friends and colleagues, and the world of Vigàta.” Booklist (starred review)

“Camilleri's series finale busts out of the traditional mystery genre to give fans an inspiring, thoughtful, and humorous farewell to a beloved character.” Library Journal

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