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When Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate a presumed suicide in Venice's elite military academy, his inquiries are immediately met with a wall of silence. The young man is the son of a doctor and former politician, a man of an impeccable integrity all too rare in Italian politics. Dr. Moro seems devastated by his son's death; but while both he and his apparently estranged wife seem convinced that the boy would not...
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"From the author of the New York Times-bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series, twenty-one short stories spanning the beloved detective's career. Inspector Montalbano has charmed readers in nineteen popular novels, and now in Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories, Andrea Camilleri has selected twenty-one short stories, written with his trademark wit and humor, that follow Italy's famous detective through highlight cases of his career....
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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,...
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Collected in one volumethe first three books in the bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series American readers were first introduced to Sicilys inimitable Inspector Salvo Montalbano more than ten years ago. Since then, the detectiveand his characteristic mix of humor, cynicism, compassion, and love of good foodhas won the affection of crime fiction aficionados and Italophiles alike. With Andrea Camilleris last two mysteries appearing on the...
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"La muerte llega a Roma a las doce menos diez minutos de la noche con un tren de alta velocidad procedente de Milán. Del coche de lujo extrañamente no sale nadie. Todos los pasajeros están muertos. La subcomisaria Colomba Caselli, que acaba de reincorporarse al servicio tras su último y escalofriante caso, es quien se encarga de evaluar la masacre. Aunque todo apunta a un ataque de terrorismo y el ISIS reivindica la autoría a través de un vídeo,...
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