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Death at Sea

By: Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli - translator
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
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A collection of eight ingenious short stories following Inspector Montalbano’s investigations into Sicily’s murky underworld, all served with Camilleri’s trademark wit, and Montalbano’s typical appetite.

Featuring stories adapted for BBC4’s Inspector Montalbano, this is the perfect place to start listening to Sicily’s favourite crime author.

From the title story, Death at Sea, in which the alleged manslaughter of an engineer upon a fishing trawler leads Inspector Montalbano to uncover an even more sinister crime, Andrea Camilleri takes his readers through eight cunning cases from the Vigàtan police files. Starting with an arson attack on a hotel which leaves the distraught owner as the chief suspect; to the mysterious case of a woman who goes missing in an underpass with a million lire in her handbag; to a threat on Montalbano’s own life, as an anonymous motorcyclist takes a shot at the detective.

 Crime Thrillers Fiction International Mystery & Crime Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Crime Thriller Short Story Suspense

Critic reviews

Among the most exquisitely crafted pieces of crime writing available today . . . Simply superb
One of fiction’s greatest detectives and Camilleri is one of Europe’s greatest crime writers
Montalbano’s colleagues, chance encounters, Sicilian mores, even the contents of his fridge are described with the wit and gusto that make this narrator the best company in crime fiction today
The godfather of Italian crime fiction . . . Rattling and wry detective fiction . . . These are police procedurals in which procedures are seldom followed.
All stars
Most relevant
Yet another triumph for the author, translator and narrator. The combination is hard to beat.

Excellent

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This collection of Montalbano’s early cases does not disappoint and is very different in atmosphere and pace to its British counterparts.
Even the more violent episodes have a more detached feel to them than the more ‘in your face’ examples of the genre.
An acquired taste but worth the effort,especially if you are a devotee of the TV adaptations.

Atmospheric Montalbano

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While Andrea Camilleri's writing is as fun as ever, Mark Meadows' narration could really be improved. While he's not unbearable he does two things I sincerely hope he will change if he narrates future books:
1. What has poor Fazio done to be given such a stupid voice? He's Montalbano's capable right-hand man and does not deserve to sound like a strung out, stuffy-nosed idiot.
2. Please please stop over-exaggerating your "Italian" intonations on Italian words. I appreciate that they are pronounced correctly but we do not need the exact same, over-egged, down-up!-down-down intonation on every single Italian word. Over and over. Please just speak them normally as you're not using an Italian accent (thank God) throughout.
Most of all though, I miss Grover Gardner. Where is he? Why isn't he narrating anymore?

I miss Grover Gardner as narrator

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