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Violence
Some
A buried body investigation; the crime is old; the farmland setting is specific
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
Some
The specific weight of a crime long past that has always been known by someone who is still present; Montalbano's archaeological approach to a murder that preceded his jurisdiction
What this book is about
A farmer plowing a field near Vigàta unearths a body — a woman who has been buried there for a long time, in a field that was once fallow. Inspector Montalbano investigates an old crime that the earth has finally given back. Andrea Camilleri's thirteenth Montalbano novel is the most focused on patient investigation of something already long finished: who the woman was, how long ago she died, and who has been living in Vigàta all this time knowing what is buried in that field.
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thirteenth Inspector Montalbano novel by Andrea Camilleri
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