The TerraCotta Dog, Andrea Camilleri
The TerraCotta Dog, Andrea Camilleri
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The TerraCotta Dog
An Inspector Montalbano Mystery

Author: Andrea Camilleri

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Synopsis

Inspector Montalbano's latest case begins with a mysterious tt tt with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and dying words that lead him to an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. There, the inspector finds two young lovers, dead for fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a lifesized terracotta dog. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him on a journey through Sicily's past and into a family's dark heart amid the horrors of World War II.

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Justo

4/5 Estrellas Esta segunda entrega de la serie del Comisario Montalbano, ha confirmado las expectativas que me había creado la primera. Es decir que esta serie va a aparecer entre mis lecturas habituales durante los próximos años (hay la pera de libros, que por desgracia no seguirán aumentando ya que......more

Goodreads review by Jim

The intertwined skeletons of a man and a woman are found sealed in a cave arranged in a ritual position with symbolic items around them. A terra-cotta dog overlooking the bodies is one of those items. The skeletons are from WW II and the Italian detective sets out to solve the mystery just for the h......more

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