Excursion to Tindari

Praise for Andrea Camilleri and the Montalbano series

“Montalbano is a delightful creation, an honest man on Sicily’s mean streets.” -USA Today

“This savagely funny police procedural ... prove[s] that sardonic laughter is a sound that translates ever so smoothly into English.” -The New York Times Book Review

“Wit and delicacy and the fast-cut timing of farce play across the surface ... but what keeps it from frothing into mere intellectual charm is the persistent, often sexually bemused Montalbano, moving with ease along zigzags created for him, teasing out threads of discrepancy that unravel the whole.” -Houston Chronicle

“Hailing from the land of Umberto Eco and La Cosa Nos- tra, Montalbano can discuss a pointy-headed book like Western Attitudes Toward Death as unflinchingly as he can pore over crime-scene snuff photos. He throws together an extemporaneous lunch of shrimp with lemon wedges and oil as gracefully as he dodges advances from attractive women.”

—Los Angeles Times

“Subtle, sardonic, and molto simpatico: Montalbano is the Latin re-creation of Philip Marlowe, working in a place that manages to be both more and less civilized than Chandler’s Los Angeles.” -Kirkus (starred)