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Violence
Some
A murder and a disappearance; Mafia connections are implied; the excursion setting is evocative
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
Some
The specific community of a church excursion and what it reveals about who people are when they travel together; Montalbano's patience in waiting for the two cases to connect
What this book is about
An elderly couple vanishes during a church group coach trip to the sanctuary at Tindari — simply gone when the bus returns. The same day, a young man is found dead in a building in Vigàta. Inspector Montalbano investigates both disappearances, which are connected in ways that illuminate the specific world of small-town Sicily: the church excursion, the families, the young man's different kind of life. Andrea Camilleri's fifth Montalbano novel is the most structurally satisfying in its early career — the connection between the two cases is unexpected but earned.
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fifth Inspector Montalbano novel by Andrea Camilleri; Tindari sanctuary setting
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