The Pyramid of Mud, Andrea Camilleri
The Pyramid of Mud, Andrea Camilleri
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The Pyramid of Mud

Author: Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 5 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/02/2018

Synopsis

This novel in the New York Times bestselling series has Italy’s favorite detective uncovering corruption and Mafia ties in the world of construction and public spending.On a gloomy morning in Vigàta, a call from Fazio rouses Inspector Montalbano from a nightmare. A man called Giugiù Nicotra has been found dead in the skeletal workings of a construction site, a place now entombed by a sea of mud from recent days of rain and floods. Shot in the back, he had fled into a water supply system tunnel. The investigation gets off to a slow start, but all the evidence points to the world of construction and public contracts, a world just as slimy and impenetrable as mud.As he wades through a world in which construction firms and public officials thrive, Montalbano is obsessed by one thought: that by going to die in the tunnel, Nicotra had been trying to communicate something.

About Andrea Camilleri

Andrea Camilleri (1925–2019) wrote the internationally bestselling Inspector Montalbano mysteries as well as historical novels. His books have been made into television shows in Italy and translated into thirty-two languages. His thirteenth Montalbano novel, The Potter’s Field, won the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger Award and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

About Grover Gardner

Alexander Adams is a pseudonym for narrator Grover Gardner. His most high-profile book to date is the unabridged novelization of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, recorded in a joint effort by BOT and Random House under the Adams moniker. He lives in Maryland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on December 06, 2023

My ninth Inspector Montalbano mystery. These are police procedurals translated from the Italian. It’s a fun read as the Inspector is known for his love of good food both at a local (Sicilian) trattoria and that cooked for him by his maid/cook. His excessive hours and his obsession with his cases tri......more

Goodreads review by Dave on November 20, 2021

Another rather pedestrian entry in Andrea Camilleri’s Sicillian mystery series about Inspector Salvo Montalbano. Salvo is aging, close to sixty, and this is supposedly the hook for aging readers; he complains all the time about his waning powers, ok. This series is for me beginning to feel like a lo......more

Goodreads review by Viola on September 07, 2024

3,5* Lai gan šis romāns ir 22. sērijā par izmeklētāju Montealbano, sanāca lasīt to pirmo. Standarta detektīvs ar labi veidotiem tēliem, loģisku sižeta līniju un atrisinājumu. Autors arī labi parādījis Sicīlijas īpašo vidi un cilvēkus.......more

Goodreads review by Three on February 24, 2018

ormai ho una certa età... immagino sia per questo che le vicende dei gialli di Montalbano faccio sempre più fatica a capirle... per fortuna alla fine ci pensa il commissario a spiegare, ma rimango lo stesso con un sacco di dubbi......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on November 27, 2018

read quite a while ago; just catching up here. full post, no spoilers: [URL not allowed] Well, here we are at book 22 in this series, and I'm still in love with Inspector Montalbano and have no intention of ever falling out of love with him. I'm looking at the Camilleri page at......more

Quotes

“Camilleri skillfully crafts a complex plot around a simple murder investigation…[Narrator Grover] Gardner provides unique accents to Montalbano’s team and those they interview. His smooth inclusion of Sicilian phrases enhances the sense of place. Although the story is rooted in social commentary and economic malfeasance, its darkness is defused by moments of wit and even buffoonery…As the puzzle unravels, Gardner gracefully shifts Montalbano from bafflement to deduction…The leisurely pace builds to a crescendo as Camilleri lays out his findings and reveals all. Fans of Donna Leon and Louise Penny, take note!” Booklist (audio review)

“Irresistible…Despite feeling his age, Montalbano manages to arrive at a solution to the puzzle with his customary cunning, humor, and fearlessness. Readers will hope he lives forever.” Publishers Weekly

“In this twenty-second installment, Camilleri shows us a more introspective and self-aware inspector, capable of questioning his own abilities, who steadfastly makes it to the bottom of this orchestrated crime with the calmness of a man who has already seen it all.” Kirkus Reviews

“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…Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.” A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author, praise for the series

“Next in the New York Times best-selling series that’s won Camilleri the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger Award.” Library Journal

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