Rounding the Mark

The seventh mystery in Camilleri's savagely funny Montalbano series.

Informationen zum Autor Andrea Camilleri was one of Italy's most famous contemporary writers. The Inspector Montalbano series, which has sold over 65 million copies worldwide, has been translated into thirty-two languages and was adapted for Italian television, screened on BBC4. The Potter's Field , the thirteenth book in the series, was awarded the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger for the best crime novel translated into English. In addition to his phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano series, he was also the author of the historical comic mysteries Hunting Season and The Brewer of Preston . He died in Rome in July 2019. Klappentext He began swimming in slow, broad strokes . . . In a fraction of a second, Montalbano realized he'd struck a human foot. Somebody else was floating right beside him, and he hadn't noticed. 'Excuse me,' he said hastily. The person beside him didn't answer, because he wasn't doing the dead man's float. He was actually dead . . . Inspector Salvo Montalbano is considering retirement. Everything - the government, the world - seems to be going to the dogs. He is starting to feel his age, and even his favourite restaurant has closed. But when he bumps into a dead body during a bracing swim, his detective instincts are aroused once more. Particularly when the most likely identity of the victim is a man already long buried . . . 'Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today . . . simply superb' Sunday Times 'The best company in crime fiction today' Guardian 'One of fiction's greatest detectives . . . utterly gripping' Daily Mirror Zusammenfassung The seventh mystery in Camilleri's savagely funny Montalbano series.

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Andrea Camilleri was one of Italy's most famous contemporary writers. The Inspector Montalbano series, which has sold over 65 million copies worldwide, has been translated into thirty-two languages and was adapted for Italian television, screened on BBC4. The Potter's Field, the thirteenth book in the series, was awarded the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger for the best crime novel translated into English. In addition to his phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano series, he was also the author of the historical comic mysteries Hunting Season and The Brewer of Preston. He died in Rome in July 2019.

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He began swimming in slow, broad strokes . . . In a fraction of a second, Montalbano realized he'd struck a human foot. Somebody else was floating right beside him, and he hadn't noticed. 'Excuse me,' he said hastily. The person beside him didn't answer, because he wasn't doing the dead man's float. He was actually dead . . .

Inspector Salvo Montalbano is considering retirement. Everything - the government, the world - seems to be going to the dogs. He is starting to feel his age, and even his favourite restaurant has closed.

But when he bumps into a dead body during a bracing swim, his detective instincts are aroused once more. Particularly when the most likely identity of the victim is a man already long buried . . .

'Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today . . . simply superb' *Sunday Times

• 'The best company in crime fiction today' Guardian

'One of fiction's greatest detectives . . . utterly gripping' Daily Mirror

Zusammenfassung

Rounding the Mark is the seventh darkly humorous novel in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series.

Increasingly disillusioned with his government and the world in general, Inspector Montalbano is considering retirement. He is starting to feel his age, and even his favourite restaurant has closed. But when he bumps into a dead body during a bracing swim, his detective instincts are aroused once more. Particularly when the most likely identity of the victim is a man already long buried . . .

Rounding the Mark is followed by the eighth novel in the series The Patience of the Spider.