The Other End of the Line

Resumen del libro

The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri.

In Inspector Montalbano's coastal town of Vigàta, a surge of migrants have been coming in by boat, and all the town's hands are on deck to help the arrivals. At the heart of the scene are the police on the lookout for the people smugglers responsible and long night-shifts are rendering Inspector Montalbano and his officers exhausted.

Then one night, while Montalbano is enduring yet another gruelling stint at the port, a separate crime is committed unexplained, unexpected, and unpleasant. Elena, the dressmaker at the town's famous tailors, has been found dead slaughtered by her own scissors . . .

As a swell of desperate people arrive in search of a better life, Inspector Montalbano finds himself trying to unravel the mystery of who murdered the dressmaker. But as he makes his enquiries, the Inspector can't help but wonder: what will happen if he keeps tugging on this thread? And what will he find at the end of the line?

AUTHOR INFORMATION
Andrea Camilleri is one of Italy's most famous contemporary writers. His books have sold over sixty-five million copies worldwide. He lives in Rome. The Inspector Montalbano series, which began with The Shape of Water, has been translated into thirty-two languages and was adapted for Italian television, screened on BBC4. The Potter's Field, the thirteenth book in the series, was awarded the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger for the best crime novel translated into English. In addition to his phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano series, he is also the author of the historical comic mysteries Hunting Season and The Brewer of Preston.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Andrea Camillerix{0026}lt;/B nació en 1925 en Porto Empedocle, provincia de Agrigento, Sicilia, y murió en Roma en 2019. Durante cuarenta años fue guionista y director de teatro y televisión e impartió clases en la Academia de Arte Dramático y en el Centro Experimental de Cine. En 1994 creó el personaje de Salvo Montalbano, el entrañable comisario siciliano protagonista de una serie que en la actualidad consta de treinta y cuatro entregas. También publicó otras tantas novelas de tema histórico, y todas sus obras ocupan habitualmente el primer puesto en las principales listas de éxitos italianas. Andrea Camilleri, traducido a treinta y seis idiomas y con más de treinta millones de ejemplares vendidos, es uno de los escritores más leídos de Europa. En 2014 fue galardonado con el IX Premio Pepe Carvalho.x{0026}lt;/P