A Beam of Light, Andrea Camilleri
A Beam of Light, Andrea Camilleri
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A Beam of Light

Author: Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 6 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2015

Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of Game of Mirrors, A Beam of Light is the nineteenth installment in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series.When Inspector Montalbano falls under the charms of beautiful gallery owner Marian, his longtime relationship with Livia comes under threat. Meanwhile, he is also troubled by a strange dream as three crimes demand his attention: the assault and robbery of a wealthy merchant’s young wife, stolen works of art, and a search for arms traffickers that leads him deep into the countryside, where the investigation takes a tragic turn.

About Andrea Camilleri

Andrea Camilleri (1925–2019) wrote the internationally bestselling Inspector Montalbano mysteries as well as historical novels. His books have been made into television shows in Italy and translated into thirty-two languages. His thirteenth Montalbano novel, The Potter’s Field, won the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger Award and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ivonne

As sometimes happens in Andrea Camilleri’s Salvo Montalbano series, A Beam of Light, the serie’s 19th novel, begins with a dream — a dream that will prove prophetic in many ways. Police Commissario Salvatore Montalbano meets the pretty and personable owner of an art gallery, the first ever in the sl......more

Goodreads review by Skip

The book's description says: "In time for Andrea Camilleri’s ninetieth birthday, the nineteenth installment of his irresistible New York Times–bestselling Inspector Montalbano Mystery series" but that's just for Americans, as this was originally published in Italian in 2012. In this latest one, Mont......more

Goodreads review by Dave

#19 in Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Salvo Montalbano series set in south Sicily, in the fictional own of Vigata. This is standard fare Montalbano, nothing surprising, reads quickly, until a surprisingly wrenching ending. It was published as Camilleri turned 87, so has this continuing wistfulness and......more

Goodreads review by Laura

Un’altra indagine del mio commissario preferito. Storia di amore, passione e ingegno. Un piano machiavellico ideato da due amiche, Valeria e Loredana, aiutate dal fratellastro della prima. Sullo sfondo una sempre più drammatica e attuale vicenda: lo sbarco dei migranti nell’isola di Lampedusa e, una......more

Quotes

“Delightful…Fueled by frequent infusions of food, Montalbano comes up with clever solutions to the strange goings-on, even as he’s less than adept at dealing with the women in his life.” Publishers Weekly

“Camilleri’s special talent has always been for using the conventional police procedural as a frame around which to showcase our misguided attempts to get what we think we want from life. Perhaps because he is as misguided as the rest of us, the melancholy Salvo makes an irresistibly appealing observer of the human tragicomedy.” Booklist

“A full plate of unsolved crimes is not enough to prevent a veteran Sicilian police inspector from flirting with disaster…Montalbano’s nineteenth outing has a more melancholy tone than his previous cases but also boasts a nifty, twisty mystery at its core.” Kirkus Reviews

“The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humor, and the sense of despair that fill the air in Sicily.” Donna Leon, New York Times bestselling author, praise for the author

“There’s a deliciously playful quality to the mysteries Andrea Camilleri writes about a lusty Sicilian police detective named Salvo Montalbano.” New York Times Book Review, praise for the author

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