The Sicilian Method, Andrea Camilleri
The Sicilian Method, Andrea Camilleri
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The Sicilian Method

Author: Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 7 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/05/2020

Synopsis

In the new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series, Montalbano finds his answers to a murder in a theatrical playMimi Augello is visiting his lover when the woman’s husband unexpectedly returns to the apartment; he climbs out the window and into the downstairs apartment, but one danger leads to another. In the dark he sees a body lying on the bed. Shortly after, another body is found, and the victim is Carmelo Catalanotti, a director of bourgeois dramas with a harsh reputation for the acting method he developed for his actors.Are the two deaths connected? Catalanotti scrupulously kept notes and comments on all the actors he worked with, as well as strange notebooks full of figures and dates and names. Inspector Montalbano finds all of Catalanotti’s dossiers and plays, the notes on the characters, and the notes on his last drama, Dangerous Corner—the theater is where he’ll find the answer.

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 SCARABOOKS on August 13, 2018

Ormai quando si legge un Camilleri di Montalbano sembra di leggere un fumetto. Tipo Tex Willer o Diabolik o Paperino. Lo schema, gli ingredienti narrativi sono sempre gli stessi. La trama è sempre l’incastro di più storie. Hanno sempre lo stesso ritmo sincopato: indagine, mangiatina, Marinella/bonaz......more

Goodreads review by Dave on December 24, 2021

So, I understand this book is actually the last novel the 93-year-old Andrea Camilleri wrote, the twentieth-sixth in his series featuring Inspector Salvo Montalbano, set in fictional Vigata, Sicily. Technically two more novels follow; however, the news is that they were written earlier, number twent......more

Goodreads review by Mosco on August 19, 2018

5/10, 3* per affetto e per il timballo. Mah. Letto senza entusiasmo. E' vero che la realtà supera la fantasia ma ho trovato il plot piuttosto inverosimile, le ripetute prodezze atletiche di Mimì Augello, benché necessarie al funzionamento della trama, tirate per le orecchie. Il che contribuisce, ins......more

Goodreads review by Elaine on June 16, 2019

Funnier and warmer than several of the recent Montalbanos, and the meditations on love at an advanced age were surprisingly moving. As I've said before, I read these mostly out of loyalty and sentiment. They conjure up for me a time, now some 15 years ago, when I was living in Sicily, and learning t......more

Goodreads review by Skip on November 04, 2020

Three crimes/stories, another love affair for the aging Inspector, and lots of sumptuous means (some prepared by his housekeeper, some by Enzo, and some in other restaurants.) The main story concerns the director of an amateur theater, who is stabbed through the heart. He has a highly unorthodox met......more

Quotes

“Aglow with local color, packed with flint-dry wit…altogether transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano.” A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“The reader is once again happily transported to Vigàta, Sicily, where Montalbano is coping, one delicious meal at a time, with two murders…Fans will miss Montalbano mightily.” Booklist (starred review)

“Grover Gardener’s accomplished narration brings alive the whole cast of characters…Gardner’s pacing allows the twists and turns to unfold, both in the case and in Montalbano’s personal life. Notably, Stephen Sartarelli has done an excellent job translating the work from the original Italian. He ensures that the humor is maintained, including Catarella’s malapropisms, which work well in the audio format.” AudioFile

“The blend of farce, sexual shenanigans, and strangely intense community theater intrigues as it amuses.” Publishers Weekly

“Montalbano’s awkwardness with the opposite sex is on full comic display in his flirtation with the mysterious Antonia, complicated further by his temperamental longtime love, Livia…The late Camilleri’s antepenultimate novel again combines divinely deadpan drollery with a clever puzzle.” Kirkus Reviews

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