The Voice of the Violin

The Smell of the Night (The Inspector Montalbano Mysteries Book 6)

Author: Andrea Camilleri

The fourth novel in Andrea Camilleri’s savagely funny, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series featuring Inspector Montalbano The commissioner kept looking at him with an expression that combined contempt and commiseration, apparently discerning unmistakable signs of senile dementia in the inspector. I’m going to speak very frankly, Montalbano. I don’t have a very hig….Read More

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