Treasure Hunt Author: Andrea Camilleri | Language: English | ISBN:
B00C5R759K | Format: PDF
Treasure Hunt Description
The sixteenth Sicilian mystery in the irresistible New York Times–bestselling Inspector Montalbano series In
Treasure Hunt, Montalbano is hailed as a hero after news cameras film him scaling a building—gun in hand—to capture a pair of unlikely snipers. Shortly after, the inspector begins to receive cryptic messages in verse from someone challenging him to go on a “treasure hunt.” Intrigued, he accepts, treating the messages as amusing riddles—until they take a dangerous turn.
- File Size: 555 KB
- Print Length: 288 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1447228782
- Publisher: Penguin Books (September 24, 2013)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00C5R759K
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,992 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
One of the main things that I've liked about Camilleri's Montalbano books is that they generally do not follow the current crime fiction trend of dark stories involving sadistic violence, serial killers, blood and gore. (It's not just that I find such content disturbing: I also find it disturbing that anyone should choose to read - or watch - such stuff for "pleasure".)
Camilleri's books might have contained the occasional gory murder or dark episode, but the prevailing mood has been light and humorous. But not with this book! Here we have a grim murder, the details of which I did not enjoy reading.
The first half of the book follows the usual enjoyable Camilleri formula, which consists of Montalbano's quirky character; lots of humour; and the occasional glimpse of social criticism from Camilleri's left-leaning perspective. I laughed out loud several times early on, and I have to admit the truth in my own case of a perceptive comment about the aging process: "...that at a certain age you become intolerant and don't let a single thing slide."
The social comment this time includes a reference to the ugliness of the housing built for the working class, and a description of the big-time criminals as being: "The CEOs who drive their companies to bankruptcy after making off with people's savings, the banks who are always finding a way to screw their customers, the big companies who steal public funds."
The second half, however, becomes more tense, but also contains a description of the aftermath of a gory and sadistic murder which spoiled the book for me.
Overall I am a great fan of Montalbano (the TV version as well as the books), but I'm not an uncritical one.
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