{"product_id":"9781529073348","title":"Riccardino","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Camilleri, Andrea\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eSicily\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 21 July 2022 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Inspector Montalbano mysteries' series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 304 pages\u003cbr\u003e130 x 196 x 24 | 224g\u003cp\u003eThe Sunday Times bestselling, twenty-eighth and final novel in the thrilling, wickedly funny Inspector Montalbano Mysteries series by Andrea Camilleri.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Contrary to what you think, I'm carrying out this investigation as best I can. But let's do this: if I get stuck, if I find I can't go forward or back, then I'll let you know, and you can step in. And offer me a way out. You've gained a bit of detective work through me, haven't you? What do you say?''I'm game,' said the Author . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Inspector Montalbano receives an early-morning phone call it proves to be the start of a very trying day. For the caller expects Montalbano to arrive imminently at a rendezvous with some friends. But before he can reply the caller announces himself as someone called Riccardino and hangs up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLater that day news comes in of a brutal slaying in broad daylight by an unknown assassin who makes his getaway on a motorbike. And when the Inspector learns of the victim's identity - a man called Riccardino - his troubles are only just beginning. For soon he must contend with the involvement of a local bishop and a fortune teller who reports some strange goings-on in her neighbourhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll roads soon lead to a local salt mine but the case proves stubbornly intractable until Montalbano receives another unexpected call . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Camilleri has contrived a fitting goodbye to a dear old friend who operates, to the very last, on his own terms' - Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camilleri, Andrea","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465745043640,"sku":"9781529073348","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781529073348.jpg?v=1734707917","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781529073348","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}