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Name: The Shape of Water

Author: Andrea Camilleri
Year: 1994
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Genres/categories:
Mystery, Thriller, Detective
Culture: Italy

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ISBNs:
9780142004715
0142004715

The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano.

The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavour. But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello, one of the local movers and shakers, apparently deceased in flagrante at the Pasture. The coroner's verdict is death from natural causes - refreshingly unusual for Sicily.

But Inspector Salvo Montalbano, as honest as he is streetwise and as scathing to fools and villains as he is compassionate to their victims, is not ready to close the case - even though he's being pressured by Vigata's police chief, judge, and bishop.

Picking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendetta firepower, and carefully planted false clues, Montalbano can be relied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of the matter.

The Shape of Water is followed by the second in this phenomenal series, The Terracotta Dog.

This book is part of the "Commissario Montalbano" series. Here are some other books from this series:

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"The Pyramid of Mud"
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"A Voice in the Night"
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"A Beam of Light"
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"Game of Mirrors"
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"Angelica's Smile"
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"Treasure Hunt"
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"The Dance of the Seagull"
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"The Age of Doubt"
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"The Potter's Field"
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"Death in Sicily"
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"The Track of Sand"
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"The Wings of the Sphinx"
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"August Heat"
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"The Paper Moon"
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"The Patience of the Spider"
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"Montalbano's First Case"
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"Rounding the Mark"
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"The Fourth Secret"
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"Excursion To Tindari"
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"The Smell of the Night"
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