Excursion to Tindari
Andrea Camilleri
Andrea Camilleri is always fun to read and in this volume there are some hilarious passages. But the Montalbano stories are not froth, they have a depth to them that lifts them far out of the ordinary. That's why I read them from start to finish every so often.
Two unusual events take place at the same block of apartments. In one case there is a point blank shooting of a young man and the disappearance of an elderly couple. The similarities between the two situations are the location, the timing and the fact that none of the twenty some occupants knows these people very well. The elderly couple are basically hermits and grouches who never exchange an ordinary word with anyone. The young man is best known for the nightly bedroom wall symphonies that his neighbor says is driving her to sin.
Montalbano aggressively pursues both cases but cannot prevent sad events that are to come.
There is no one more wily than Montalbano when it comes to outsmarting criminals , mafiosi or his superiors who try to rein him in.
The descriptions of the area which is a town in Sicily, of his home near the ocean and especially of his adventures in eating. How about some risotto in squid sauce? Most of the things he eats are in the seafood category which is appropriate since he lives on an island. There is no author to compare with the view into Montalbano's head and he ponders, debates with himself and comes to wonderful conclusions.
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