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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A good yarn with plenty of atmosphere. Excellent story. You can smell the food and Sicily -and the sun. 3 in the Salvo Montalbano Italian police procedural series. Once again Salvo manages to be offensive to almost everyone while investigating the murder of an elderly man in an elevator. When he learns it is (at least peripherally) related to an international case in which a man was shot on a fishing boat, he’s like a pit bull that won’t let go as he manipulates the stupid secret service and his superiors into dropping the answers he needs into his lap. Also with some serious personal conflicts and things to go through, Salvo spends time soul searching and consuming various gustatory delights along the way as well. Enjoyable as always—don’t know how such an ornery cuss manages to be so likable, but like him I do! I absolutely loved this book. It is the third in the Montalbano series, which I am reading in order, and so far I think it is my favourite. In this one, the world-weary Montalbano gets embroiled in a case involving an apparently respectable retired businessman who was murdered in the lift at his building, and a Tunisian fisherman murdered in a trawler boat just off the Sicilian coast. During the course of the investigation, he finds himself becoming reluctantly a kind of 'surrogate father' to a young boy, Francois, whose mother, a cleaner and prostitute named Karima, who is involved in the case, and who goes missing. This puts great strain on the Inspector's relationship with his girlfriend Livia. Montalbano is a character who I really like despite myself. His friends and colleagues consider him to be unreasonable, and possibly crazy, and yet they still like and respect him. This reflects this reader's impression of the man. Overall, I would recommend this book, and indeed the whole Montalbano series, based on the books I have read so far. 0.077 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0330492977, Paperback)Never has Inspector Montalbano's signature mix of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food been more compelling than in The Snack Thief.When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Montalbano, with his keen insight into human nature, suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son is caught stealing other schoolchildren's midmorning snacks. But when Karima disappears, the young snack thief's life-as well as his own-is endangered when Montalbano exposes a viper's nest of government and international intrigue. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:01 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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In this book Camilleri delivers a master class in character development. If we have come to know the curmudgeon Montalbano in the first two books, it has been only skin deep. In this outing we are given a window into his soul. With news that his father has only a short time to live, and his relationship with Livia brought to head through their relationship with a young orphaned child; Montalbano's professional and private worlds collide explosively with yet unknown consequences for the future.
The best in the series to date, "The Snack Thief" promises rich rewards for the reader committed to following Montalbano's journey through, projecting him headlong and breathless into the next book, "The Voice of the Violin". (