In this 25th mystery featuring Sicilian Inspector Salvo Montalbano, the titular hero investigates a series of abductions of young women and an arson case involving a store whose owner is missing.
The plots are delightful and complex, as tasty as the antipasti and seafood dishes that the Inspector wolfs down every 40 pages ... The Overnight Kidnapper ... is full of atmosphere and life, and Stephen Sartarelli’s translation captures it all beautifully.
Camilleri's sequel to The Pyramid of Mud, with its descriptions of Sicilian politics, customs, and food, has enough humor involving the office staff at the police department to be a Sicilian cousin of Bill Crider's 'Sheriff Dan Rhodes' mysteries ... Armchair travelers who enjoy Cay Rademacher's police procedurals set in Provence, France, or Jeffrey Siger's Greece-set crime novels may want to venture to Sicily.
The aging detective’s insights into the darker side of human nature allow him to cut through the red herrings as the action builds to a crisp, decisive ending. The Sicilian dialect of the police station’s switchboard operator, as rendered in Sartarelli’s adept translation, provides comic relief. Camilleri fans are in for a treat.
