Excursion To Tindari (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)

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Maybe a phrase, a line, a hint somewhere would reveal a reason, any reason, for the elderly couples disappearance. They?d saved everything... there was even a copy of the ?certificate of living existence?, that nadir of bureaucratic imbecility... What was the ?protocol?, to use a word dear to government offices? Did one simply write on a sheet of paper something like: ?I, the undersigned, Salvo Montalbano, hereby declare myself to be in existence?, sign it, & turn it in to the appointed clerk? A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building early one morning, & an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari ? two seemingly unrelated cases for Inspector Montalbano to solve amid the daily complications of life at Vig?ta police headquarters. But when Montalbano discovers that the couple & the murdered young man lived in the same building, his investigation stumbles onto Sicily's brutal ? New Mafia?, which leads him down a path more evil & more far-reaching than any he has been down before. Praise for Andrea Camilleri: ?A joy to read? The Times ? This savagely funny police procedural proves that sardonic laughter is a sound that translates ever so smoothly into English? New York Times