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- Length: 7 hrs
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the director asks the locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigàta in that time. Engineer Ernesto Sabatello, while rummaging in the attic of his house, finds some films shot by his father from 1958 to 1963 - always on the same day, March 27; and always the same shot, the outside wall of a country house. Montalbano hears the story and, intrigued by the mystery of it, begins to investigate its meaning.
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5 out of 5 stars
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- By RuthieJune on 03-24-20
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The Other End of the Line
- Inspector Montalbano, Book 24
- By: Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli - translator
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
A wave of refugees has arrived on the Sicilian coast, and Inspector Montalbano and his team have been stationed at port, alongside countless volunteers, to receive and assist the newcomers. Meanwhile, Livia has promised their presence at a friend's wedding, and the inspector, agreeing to get a new suit tailored, meets the charming master seamstress Elena Biasini. But while on duty at the dock one late night, tragedy strikes, and Elena is found gruesomely murdered. Between managing the growing crowds at port, Montalbano works to weave together the loose threads of the unsolved crimes.
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2 out of 5 stars
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What a disappointment!
- By Carl on 09-27-19
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The Overnight Kidnapper
- An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
- By: Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
The day gets off to a bad start for Montalbano: while trying to break up a fight on Marinella beach, he hits the wrong man and is stopped by the Carabinieri. When he finally gets to the office, the inspector learns about a strange abduction: a woman was abducted, drugged, and then released unharmed a few hours later. A few days later, the same thing happens again, but this time the woman abducted is the niece of Enzo, the owner of Montalbano's favorite trattoria. The only link between the two events is that both women are 30 years old and work in a bank.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Montalbano is up to tricks again!
- By Jan on 02-06-19
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Under Occupation
- A Novel
- By: Alan Furst
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 200
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Story4 out of 5 stars 181
In this thrilling historical spy novel from New York Times best-selling author Alan Furst, two heroic resistance fighters smuggle valuable information to occupied Paris to turn the tide of the World War II and defeat Nazi Germany.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Quite Short
- By Bobbi Mumm on 12-11-19
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Trace Elements
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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A woman’s cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region in Donna Leon’s haunting 29th Brunetti novel. When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in responding.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect
- By Maine Knitter on 03-07-20
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A Beam of Light
- The Inspector Montalbano Mysteries 19
- By: Andrea Camilleri
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 70
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
When Inspector Montalbano falls under the charms of beautiful gallery owner Marian, his longtime relationship with Livia comes under threat. Meanwhile, he is also troubled by a strange dream as three crimes demand his attention: the robbery and assault of a wealthy merchant's young wife, stolen works of art, and a search for arms traffickers that leads him deep into the countryside, where the investigation takes a tragic turn.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellence!
- By Jan on 01-16-18
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The Safety Net
- The Inspector Montalbano Mysteries, Book 25
- By: Andrea Camilleri
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the director asks the locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigàta in that time. Engineer Ernesto Sabatello, while rummaging in the attic of his house, finds some films shot by his father from 1958 to 1963 - always on the same day, March 27; and always the same shot, the outside wall of a country house. Montalbano hears the story and, intrigued by the mystery of it, begins to investigate its meaning.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I’ll miss Andrea Camilleri
- By RuthieJune on 03-24-20
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The Other End of the Line
- Inspector Montalbano, Book 24
- By: Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli - translator
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
A wave of refugees has arrived on the Sicilian coast, and Inspector Montalbano and his team have been stationed at port, alongside countless volunteers, to receive and assist the newcomers. Meanwhile, Livia has promised their presence at a friend's wedding, and the inspector, agreeing to get a new suit tailored, meets the charming master seamstress Elena Biasini. But while on duty at the dock one late night, tragedy strikes, and Elena is found gruesomely murdered. Between managing the growing crowds at port, Montalbano works to weave together the loose threads of the unsolved crimes.
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2 out of 5 stars
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What a disappointment!
- By Carl on 09-27-19
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The Overnight Kidnapper
- An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
- By: Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
The day gets off to a bad start for Montalbano: while trying to break up a fight on Marinella beach, he hits the wrong man and is stopped by the Carabinieri. When he finally gets to the office, the inspector learns about a strange abduction: a woman was abducted, drugged, and then released unharmed a few hours later. A few days later, the same thing happens again, but this time the woman abducted is the niece of Enzo, the owner of Montalbano's favorite trattoria. The only link between the two events is that both women are 30 years old and work in a bank.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Montalbano is up to tricks again!
- By Jan on 02-06-19
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Under Occupation
- A Novel
- By: Alan Furst
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 200
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Story4 out of 5 stars 181
In this thrilling historical spy novel from New York Times best-selling author Alan Furst, two heroic resistance fighters smuggle valuable information to occupied Paris to turn the tide of the World War II and defeat Nazi Germany.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Quite Short
- By Bobbi Mumm on 12-11-19
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Trace Elements
- By: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4 out of 5 stars 67
A woman’s cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region in Donna Leon’s haunting 29th Brunetti novel. When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in responding.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect
- By Maine Knitter on 03-07-20
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A Beam of Light
- The Inspector Montalbano Mysteries 19
- By: Andrea Camilleri
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 70
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
When Inspector Montalbano falls under the charms of beautiful gallery owner Marian, his longtime relationship with Livia comes under threat. Meanwhile, he is also troubled by a strange dream as three crimes demand his attention: the robbery and assault of a wealthy merchant's young wife, stolen works of art, and a search for arms traffickers that leads him deep into the countryside, where the investigation takes a tragic turn.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellence!
- By Jan on 01-16-18
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The Terra-Cotta Dog
- An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
- By: Andrea Camilleri
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 245
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 172
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Story4 out of 5 stars 170
Montalbano's latest case begins with a mysterious tête à tête with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and some dying words that lead him to an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. There the inspector finds two young lovers, dead for 50 years and still embracing, watched over by a life-sized terra-cotta 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.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It just gets better
- By Lehua of Pacifica on 02-27-09
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The Dance of the Seagull
- By: Andrea Camilleri
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61
This latest installment in the Inspector Montalbano series finds Montalbano in search of his missing right-hand man. Before leaving for vacation with Livia, Montalbano witnesses a seagull doing an odd dance on the beach outside his home - and then the bird suddenly drops dead. Stopping in at his office for a quick check before heading off, he notices that Fazio is nowhere to be found and soon learns that he was last seen on the docks, secretly working on a case.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Always interesting. Enjoy the characters.
- By Susan on 06-18-19
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The Caves of Perigord
- By: Martin Walker
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 71
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4 out of 5 stars 67
Walker's richly interwoven novel opens with the arrival of a mysterious package for a young American woman working in a London auction house. Brought by a British officer, it contains a 17,000-year-old fragment of a cave painting left to him by his father, a former World War II hero. The fragment, significant and stunning in itself, is also the key to the existence of an unknown cave that may be more important in the history of art and human creation than the world-famous one at Lascaux.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- By Jean on 06-29-19
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Rounding the Mark
- An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
- By: Andrea Camilleri
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 73
While swimming along the Sicilian shore, Inspector Montalbano discovers a corpse. His pursuit of the cause of death intersects with the inquiry into a hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of a young boy who may have been victimized by human traffickers. The buying and selling of immigrant children, for slave labor, sex, and as a source of illegal organ transplants, is part of the evil underside of the opening of Europe's borders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Curse the Saints
- By MovieLover on 10-15-15
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Treasure Hunt
- The Inspector Montalbano Mystery
- By: Andrea Camilleri
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4 out of 5 stars 57
Interest in Andrea Camilleri's taciturn but epicurean inspector is at an all-time high. And with three of the last five novels in the series, including the award-winning The Potter's Field, hitting the New York Times bestseller list, this latest installment is certain to up the ante and win over a multitude of new fans. In Treasure Hunt, Inspector Montalbano is hailed as a hero after news cameras film him scaling abuilding, gun in hand, to capture a pair of unlikely snipers. Shortly thereafter the inspector begins to receive cryptic messages in verse from someone challenging him to a treasure hunt. Intrigued, he accepts, treating the messages as amusing riddles - until they take a dangerous turn.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Great Series with a Great Reader
- By Michael W. on 11-20-13
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The Second Sleep
- A novel
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 307
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Story4 out of 5 stars 285
1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts - coins, fragments of glass, human bones - which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth. Over the course of the next six days, everything he believes - about himself, his faith, and the history of his world - will be tested to destruction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This IS different...
- By Robin on 11-27-19
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Maigret and the Ghost
- Inspector Maigret, Book 62
- By: Georges Simenon
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
During an undercover case Inspector Lognon is shot in a room he was sharing with a beautiful woman who has since disappeared. Inspector Maigret retraces Lognon's secretive last few days and is drawn into the darker side of the art world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent story will read
- By John Galt on 02-16-20
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The Wings of the Sphinx
- By: Andrea Camilleri
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4 out of 5 stars 63
Things are not going well for Inspector Salvo Montalbano. His relationship with Livia is once again on the rocks and - acutely aware of his age - he is beginning to grow weary of the endless violence he encounters. Then a young woman is found dead, her face half shot off and only a tattoo of a sphinx moth giving any hint of her identity. The tattoo links her to three similarly marked girls - all victims of the underworld sex trade.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This one review does it all for me.
- By Lawrence on 07-28-11
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The Pyramid of Mud
- The Inspector Montalbano, Book 22
- By: Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli - translator
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another winner
- By Reba on 01-31-18
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August Heat
- An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
- By: Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (translator)
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 76
When a colleague extends his summer vacation, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is forced to stay in Vigàta and endure the August heat. Montalbano’s long-suffering girlfriend, Livia, joins him with a friend - husband and young son in tow - to keep her company during these dog days of summer. But when the boy suddenly disappears into a narrow shaft hidden under the family’s beach rental, Montalbano uncovers something terribly sinister.
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4 out of 5 stars
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There's No Fool Like An Old Fool!
- By MidwestGeek on 03-15-13
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Montalbano’s First Case and Other Stories
- The Inspector Montalbano, Book 0.5
- By: Andrea Camilleri
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 125
In Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories, Andrea Camilleri has selected 21 short stories, written with his trademark wit and humor, that follow Italy's famous detective through highlight cases of his career. From the title story, featuring a young Deputy Montalbano newly assigned to Vigàta, to "Montalbano Says No", in which the inspector makes a late-night call to Camilleri himself to refuse an outlandish case, this volume is an essential addition to any fan's collection and a wonderful way to introduce listeners to the internationally best-selling series.
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5 out of 5 stars
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THIS BOOK NEEDS TO BE LISTENED TO FIRST!!!
- By Reba on 12-31-16
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The Smell of the Night
- An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
- By: Andrea Camilleri
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 132
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 82
A "financial wizard" entrusted with the savings of nearly half the retirees of Vigata mysteriously disappears with the money and a young man who worked for him. In a rather atypical case for Montalbano, the inspector finds himself initially shut out of the investigation by the ever hostile commissioner Bonetti-Alderighi, and forced to work from the shadows.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very enjoyable!
- By Kathleen on 11-23-11
Publisher's Summary
Based on a true story and told with the pacing, humor, and thrills of a Mediterranean mystery, Andrea Camilleri’s novel tells of a turn-of-the-century Sicilian scandal that revealed a tendency that is with us still: the refusal to accept the truth.
The lawyer and journalist Matteo Teresi discovers the existence of a secret sect whose members include priests, politicians, and regional VIPs. During the early morning hours, when the town’s churches are closed, the "Sect of the Angels" meets in the sacristy to carry out their holy office: initiating devout virgins into the rites of married life. Preying on their victims’ naivete, the hooded "elect" commit ignominious acts while promising the young women divine grace.
In 1901, at a time of immense changes in Sicilian society, the scandal breaks nationwide. But far from being hailed as a hero, Teresi is accused of disrupting the status quo and irrationally blamed for an outbreak of disease and a series of calamities.
From the salons, churches, and social clubs of Sicily to the country’s highest courts, Camilleri’s novel is a fast-paced, at times funny, passionately rendered portrait of the machinations of power and the difficult destiny of a local hero.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Reba
- 02-26-20
First I wasn't for sure about the book, but it proved to be another great Camilleri book
I had a little hard time keeping all the characters straight in the beginning, but I listened a little harder and got the main characters straight. A lawyer intent on keeping the priest honest in the small town, found that the people weren't happy about that. It's worth your credit. Book based on a true story. Because it takes place in Italy, I am having a hard time writing a correct review giving a better plot review. I will listen to it again. I love Grover Gardner the narrator. Enjoy.