Andrea Camilleri is the bestselling author of the popular
Inspector Montalbano mystery series. He lives in Rome.
Stephen Sartarelli is an award-winning translator and poet.
He lives in France.
Praise for Andrea Camilleri and the Montalbano Series:
"Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano mysteries might sell like
hotcakes in Europe, but these world-weary crime stories were
unknown here until the oversight was corrected (in Stephen
Sartarelli's salty translation) by the welcome publication of
The Shape of Water...This savagely funny police
procedural...prove[s] that sardonic laughter is a sound that
translates ever so smoothly into English."-The New York Times
Book Review
"Hailing from the land of Umberto Eco and La Cosa Nostra,
Montalbano can discuss a pointy-headed book like Western
Attitudes Toward Death as unflinchingly as he can pore over
crime-scene snuff photos. He throws together an extemporaneous
lunch of shrimp with lemon and oil as gracefully as he dodges
advances from attractive women."-Los Angeles
Times
"[Camilleri's mysteries] offer quirky characters, crisp dialogue,
bright storytelling-and Salvo Montalbano, one of the most engaging
protagonists in detective fiction...Montalbano is a delightful
creation, an honest man on Siciliy's mean streets."-USA
Today
"Camilleri is as crafty and charming a writer as his protagonist is
an investigator."-The Washington Post Book World
"Like Mike Hammer or Sam Spade, Montalbano is the kind of guy who
can't stay out of trouble...Still, deftly and lovingly translated
by Stephen Sartarelli, Camilleri makes it abundantly clear that
under the gruff, sardonic exterior our inspector has a heart of
gold, and that any outburst, fumbles, or threats are made only in
the name of pursuing truth."-The Nation
"Camilleri can do a character's whole backstory in half a
paragraph."-The New Yorker
"Wit and delicacy and the fast-cut timing of farce play across the
surface...but what keeps it from frothing into mere intellectual
charm is the persistent, often sexually bemused Montalbano, moving
with ease along zigzags created for him, teasing out threads of
discrepancy that unravel the whole."-Houston
Chronicle
"Sublime and darkly humorous...Camilleri balances his hero's
personal and professional challenges perfectly and leaves the
reader eager for more."-Publishers Weekly (starred
review)
"In Sicily, where people do things as they please, Inspector Salvo
Montalbano is a bona fide folk hero."-The New York Times Book
Review
"The books are full of sharp, precise characterizations and with
subplots that make Montalbano endearingly human...Like the
antipasti that Montalbano contentedly consumes, the stories are
light and easily consumed, leaving one eager for the next
course."-New York Journal of Books
"The reading of these little gems is fast and fun every step of the
way."-The New York Sun
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