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Violence
Some
Multiple murders; financial fraud is the context; the victims are ordinary savers
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
Some
The specific desperation that follows the loss of a lifetime's savings; Montalbano's sympathy for people who were targeted because they saved rather than because they were greedy
What this book is about
Emanuele Gargano, a financial advisor who promised extraordinary returns to the small savers of Vigàta, has disappeared — along with everyone's money. Now some of those savers are turning up dead. Inspector Montalbano investigates a financial fraud and its violent consequences, examining the specific human devastation that follows when ordinary people lose their savings to someone who promised them more than they should have believed. Andrea Camilleri's sixth Montalbano novel is his most concerned with economic anxiety and the specific vulnerability of people who work all their lives and then trust the wrong person with the result.
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sixth Inspector Montalbano novel by Andrea Camilleri
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