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Learn moreFrom 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 merchantās 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.
Andrea Camilleri (1925ā2019) 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 Potterās Field, won the Crime Writersā Association International Dagger Award and was long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Grover GardnerāsĀ narration career spans 25 years and over 550 audiobook titles.Ā AudioFile magazine has called him one of the āBest Voices of the Centuryā and features him in their annual āGolden Voicesā update.Ā Publishers WeeklyĀ named him Audiobook Narrator of the Year for 2005.Ā His recordings have garnered 18 Earphones Awards fromĀ AudioFileĀ and an Audie Award from the Audio Publishersā Association.
Stephen Sartarelli is an award-winning translator and poet.
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āDelightfulā¦Fueled by frequent infusions of food, Montalbano comes up with clever solutions to the strange goings-on, even as heās less than adept at dealing with the women in his life.ā
āCamilleriās 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.ā
āA full plate of unsolved crimes is not enough to prevent a veteran Sicilian police inspector from flirting with disasterā¦Montalbanoās nineteenth outing has a more melancholy tone than his previous cases but also boasts a nifty, twisty mystery at its core.ā
āThe 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.ā
āThereās a deliciously playful quality to the mysteries Andrea Camilleri writes about a lusty Sicilian police detective named Salvo Montalbano.ā
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