Mantle Hunting Season Камиллери Андреа

Инспектор Сальваторе Монтальбано просыпается от странного сна и обнаруживает перед своим домом на берегу моря труп лошади, который исчезает вскоре после того, как на место прибывают коллеги Сальво. Потом в его доме появляются неизвестные, и инспектор уверен, что эти события связаны • Преданные фанаты Андреа Камиллери и те, кто впервые открывает для себя мир этих невероятных детективов, будут очарованы сочетанием неортодоксальных методов Монтальбано, его склонностью к меланхолическому самоанализу и любовью к хорошей еде • "Ты либо любишь Андреа Камиллери, либо просто не читал его книг. Каждый детектив в этой захватывающей серии, взрывает мозг, как выстрел чистого кислорода. Боже, храни Камиллери и, Боже, храни Монтальбано" • А.Дж.Финн, автор бестселлера №?1 по версии New York Times • "Уникальный Монтальбано абсолютно покоряет" • The New York Times • "Камиллери настолько же хитер и очарователен как писатель, насколько Монтальбано как следователь" • The Washington Post • "Италию, без сомнений, стоит посетить снова, хотя бы на страницах книг этой серии" • Los Angeles Times • "

Вместо запланированного путешествия инспектор Сальво Монтальбано вынужден провести жаркий сицилийский август в Вигате в компании друзей своей подруги Ливии и их непоседливого сына. Когда мальчик внезапно исчезает, Сальво участвует в его поисках. Однако вместе с ребенком он находит нечто действительно ужасающее • Этим летом Монтальбано предстоит расследовать одно из самых шокирующих дел в его карьере. Преданные фанаты Андреа Камиллери и те, кто впервые открывает для себя мир этих невероятных детективов, будут очарованы сочетанием неортодоксальных методов Монтальбано, его склонностью к меланхолическому самоанализу и любовью к хорошей еде

The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri, and this time migrants and murder are on the Inspector's mind • 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

The Overnight Kidnapper is the twenty-third Inspector Montalbano mystery, from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri • After a hectic morning involving two rather irritating cases of mistaken identity, Inspector Montalbano finally arrives in his office ready find out what's troubling Vigata this week. What he discovers is unnerving. A woman on her way home from work has been held up at gunpoint, chloroformed and kidnapped, but then released just hours later - unharmed and with all her possessions - into the open countryside • Later that day, Montalbano hears from Enzo, the owner of his favourite restaurant, that his niece has recently been the victim of the exact same crime. Before long, a third instance of this baffling overnight kidnapping has been reported

In The Sicilian Method, Andrea Camilleri's twenty-sixth novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series, Montalbano finds his answers to a murder in a theatrical play • Mimi Augello is visiting his lover when the woman's husband unexpectedly returns to the apartment. Hurriedly, he climbs out the window and into the downstairs apartment, but from one danger to another. In the dark he sees a body lying on the bed • Shortly afterwards another body is found and the victim is Carmelo Catalanotti, a director of bourgeois dramas with a harsh reputation for the acting method he developed for his actors: digging into their complexes to unleash their talent, a traumatic experience for all. Are the two deaths connected? Catalanotti scrupulously kept notes and comments on all the actors he worked with as well as strange notebooks full of figures, dates and names… • Inspector Montalbano finds all of Catalanotti's dossiers and plays, the notes on the characters and the notes on his final drama, Dangerous Turn

August Heat by Andrea Camilleri is the tenth installment in the Inspector Montalbano series, now adapted as a major BBC4 television series • The lazy, slow month of August at the height of the Sicilian summer is, Inspector Montalbano assures his girlfriend Livia as they prepare for a relaxing holiday in a villa he has found for them, far too hot for any murders to be committed. But when Livia's friends' young son goes missing, a chain of events is sparked which will certainly ruin the Chief Inspector's pleasant interlude • A secret apartment and a grisly find in an old trunk are just the beginning, as Montalbano navigates his way through the case, as well as coping with the sweltering heat, the suspicious death of an Arab labourer and the tempting lure of a beautiful girl…

"Первое дело Монтальбано" и другие рассказы - это блестящий сборник коротких рассказов, лично отобранных Андреа Камиллери • Это следует за инспектором Монтальбано с его самого первого дела в Вигате, в ходе которого он натыкается на молодую девушку, скрывающуюся у здания суда с пистолетом в сумочке. Когда ее забирают на допрос, и она не произносит ни единого слова, Монтальбано должен найти другой способ узнать, кого она пытается убить и почему… • Другие случаи включают пропавшую женщину, которая сбежала от любви всей своей жизни; пожилую супружескую пару, которая, похоже, репетирует свои самоубийства; и преступление настолько темное, что инспектор может обратиться за помощью только к одному человеку • В этих коротких рассказах, изобилующих перипетиями, есть все то остроумие, загадочность и кулинарный вкус, за которые поклонники Камиллери полюбили его

Andrea Camilleri's sensational and darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano series continues in the fourteenth instalment, The Age of Doubt • A chance encounter with a strange young woman leads Inspector Montalbano to Vigata harbour - and into a puzzling new mystery. The crew of a mysterious yacht - the Vanna - due to dock in the area has discovered a corpse floating in the water, the dead man's face badly disfigured. It isn't long before Montalbano becomes suspicious of the Vanna's inhabitants. Who is the yacht's owner, the glamorous and short-tempered Livia Giovannini? How has she accrued her riches? And why does she spend so much time at sea? • Meanwhile Montalbano finds himself getting into tangles with the dreaded Commissioner, the exasperating Dr Lattes and a very beautiful young woman at the harbour, with whom he becomes dangerously besotted

The Overnight Kidnapper is the twenty-third Inspector Montalbano mystery, from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri • After a hectic morning involving two rather irritating cases of mistaken identity, Inspector Montalbano finally arrives in his office ready to find out what's troubling Vigata this week. What he discovers is unnerving. A woman on her way home from work has been held up at gunpoint, chloroformed and kidnapped, but then released just hours later - unharmed and with all her possessions - into the open countryside • Later that day, Montalbano hears from Enzo, the owner of his favourite restaurant, that his niece has recently been the victim of the exact same crime. Before long, a third instance of this baffling overnight kidnapping has been reported

Blade of Light is the nineteenth gripping addition to the phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano Sicilian mysteries by Andrea Camilleri • When a gentleman arrives at Montalbano's police station to report an armed robbery on his wife that ended with a kiss, the inspector's suspicions are aroused • As he delves deeper into the case, Montalbano finds that none of the witnesses' stories are adding up, and he can't help but feel that they're not meant to. When a body turns up showing all the signs of a mafia hit, the inspector knows he must excavate the truth from what he is being led to believe • Meanwhile there's a case that keeps winding its way back to Montalbano's office. A locked door has suddenly appeared on a farmer's disused shed, and then, just as quickly, the door disappears

The twenty-eighth and final novel in the thrilling, wickedly funny Inspector Montalbano Mysteries series by bestselling author Andrea Camilleri • 'Contrary to what you think, I'm carrying out this investigation as best I can. But let's do this: if I get stuck, if I find I can't go forward or back, then I'll let you know, and you can step in. And offer me a way out. You've gained a bit of detective work through me, haven't you? What do you say?' • 'I'm game,' said the Author • When Inspector Montalbano receives an early-morning phone call it proves to be the start of a very trying day. For the caller expects Montalbano to arrive imminently at a rendezvous with some friends. But before he can reply the caller announces himself as someone called Riccardino and hangs up

A Voice in the Night is the twentieth compelling crime novel in the phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri • Feeling his age, as his birthday rolls round once again, Inspector Montalbano decides to cheer himself up by dealing with a young driver's road rage in his own unique way • But his joy is short-lived, as at police headquarters he receives an angry phone call from a supermarket boss: there's been a robbery at his store and Montalbano's colleague is treating him as a suspect. On arrival at the scene, Montalbano quickly agrees with Inspector Augello that this was no ordinary break-in, but with the supermarket's infamous links to the Sicilian Mafia creating problems at every turn, this isn't going to be an easy case for the inspector to solve