The Overnight Kidnapper

" Camilleri's mysteries] offer quirky characters, crisp dialogue, bright storytelling--and Salvo Montalbano... a delightful creation, an honest man on Sicily's mean streets." --USA Today

The day gets off to a bad start for Montalbano: while trying to break up a fight on Marinella beach, he hits the wrong man and is stopped by the Carabinieri. When he finally gets to the office, the inspector learns about a strange abduction: a woman was abducted, drugged, and then released unharmed only hours later. Within a few days, the same thing happens again. Both women are thirty years old and work in a bank.

Montalbano also has to deal with an arson case. A shop has burned down, and its owner, Marcello Di Carlo, seems to have vanished into thin air. At first this seems like a trivial case, but a third abduction--yet again of a girl who works in a bank--and the discovery of a body bring up new questions.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 02/05/2019
ISBN: 9780143131137
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Library Journal 02/01/2019 pg. 62
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2018
Publishers Weekly 12/24/2018
Booklist 02/01/2019 pg. 34