Patience of the Spider

<b><b>You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven't read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive entirely magical series set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen. Aglow with local color packed with flint-dry wit as fresh and clean as Mediterranean seafood -- altogether transporting. Long live Camilleri and long live Montalbano. A.J. Finn #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Woman in the Window</i></b></b> <p/> Winning fans in Europe and America for their dark sophistication and dry humor Andrea Camilleri's crime novels are classics of the genre. Set once again in Sicily <i>The Patience of the Spider</i> pits Inspector Montalbano against his greatest foe yet: the weight of his own years. Still recovering from the gunshot wound he suffered in <i>Rounding the Mark</i> he must overcome self-imposed seclusion and waxing self-doubt to penetrate a web of hatred and secrets in pursuit of the strangest culprit he's ever hunted. A mystery unlike any other this emotionally taut story brings the Montalbano saga to a captivating crossroads.