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    <body><![CDATA[This book is set in Sicily - a place I would like to visit sometime.  The story incorporates the complexities of a society where there are multiple law enforcement organizations, corrupt politicians and civil servants, organized crime and unscrupulous business practices.  In the center of this socie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79958614">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting account of life in Sicily. Inspector Montalbano is quite a revelation. Caricature characters and I got a few laughs here and there. I am truly disappointed by the ending. Although the plot was quite a surprise, I don't like how Inspector Montalbano reveal the mystery. It is as if the aut...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75942526">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was attracted to it because the cover said something about stories of food + mystery (?)...and it's set in Sicily, which I love... I didn't think it delivered what I expected (it IS set in Sicily).  That said, it was a fun, quick read, and I'll read more in the series!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another good Inspector Montalbano mystery from Sicily.  I found that going back to the earlier books are a better way to read the series then to just select them randomly.  One has better perspective about the inspector and how he grows throughout the series.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book itself is a little bit choppy.  Perhaps it is the writer's style or the fact that it is translated from Italian.  Took me a little while to sort out who all the characters were, but overall it was a quick little mystery to read.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano has become an international sensation whose adventures have been translated from Italian into eight languages, from Dutch to Japanese. <em>The Shape of Water</em> is the first book in this sly, witty, engaging series with its sardonic take on Sicilian life. <br/><br/> The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn, sirocco-swept site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavor. But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendor Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Lupanello, 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. <br/><br/> Picking his way nimbly through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendetta fire-power, and carefully planted false clues, Montalbano can be relied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of the matter. <br/><br/> Translated by Stephen Sartarelli.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm generally not a huge fan of mystery novels but I do like this series of Sicilian police detective novels.  Inspector Montalbano is an interesting character and the ins-and-outs of Sicilian politics make for a good read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Shape of Water - G+<br/>Andrea Camilleri - 1st in series<br/>Early one morning, Silvio Lupanello, a big shot in the village of Vigta, is found dead in his car with his pants around his knees. The car happens to be parked in a rough part of town frequented by prostitutes and drug dealers, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6240092">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first book with Inspector Montalbano as the main character. It is set in Italy and is what I would call a &quot;spaghetti mystery&quot; similar to the '70s spaghetti westerns. It's a quick read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was fine... but I started getting bored half way through and for a mystery I didn't really care what happened. I guess I should give it a lower rating, but I didn't hate it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first book I've read by Andrea Camilleri and I really enjoyed it. A great mystery with spots of humour throughout. Will definitely read more!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A good mystery novel, but doesn't deviate much from the standard recipe of a pinch of sex, dash of political subterfuge, with moralizing investigator to taste.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Really not the greatest book.  Ashley read it to me while we were driving cross country and I just didn't follow it well enough to think it was good.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I very much enjoyed this first novel in the Inspector Montalbano series, a police procedural set in Sicily. The story is told without anything extraneous, with a dry wit and ample cynicism regarding political corruption. Also: great descriptions of food.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Got turned on to the author by my sister.  He's great.  His characters are better, these are fast, fun, and funny books to read.]]></body>
    
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