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The Snack Thief

By: Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli - translator
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
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Never has Inspector Montalbano's character – a unique blend of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food – been more compelling than in Andrea Camilleri's third Montalbano novel, The Snack Thief.

When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished house cleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son steals other school children's mid-morning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's life – as well as Montalbano's – is endangered when the inspector exposes a viper's nest of government corruption and international intrigue.

The Snack Thief is followed by the fourth Inspector Montalbano novel, The Voice of the Violin.

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Read the first 2 books in the series. Wonderful compassionate , flawed and human detective with a sharp mind

Enjoyable detective story

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I am listening to these in order and also have not seen any of the TV shows. I bought the first one (The Shape of Water) by accident because it had the same title as a film that won some Oscars. It was a very happy accident. This third book in the series has, I think, more humour than the previous two abd the plotting and the telling of the tale is just as good.

I’m really enjoying this series and will keep going until I come across one I don’t like. After reading the first three, that does not seem likely to happen for a while.

Highly recommended.

As good, if not better than the previous two

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Good reader
Must for Montauban fans
Has so much more to offer than tv adaptation

Great Montalbano story

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