TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrea Camilleri
TI  - The Terra-Cotta Dog
SN  - 9780142004722
AV  - PQ4863.A3894 
U1  - 853.914 
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Detective
KW  - Crime Fiction
N2  - Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic take on Sicilian life. Montalbano's latest case begins with a mysterious tt̊  t̊̉t̊ ẘith a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and dying words that lead him to an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. There, the inspector finds two young lovers, dead for fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-sized terra-cotta dog. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him on a journey through Sicily's past and into one family's darkest secrets. With sly wit and a keen understanding of human nature, Montalbano is a detective whose earthiness, compassion, and imagination make him totally irresistable
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