The Snack Thief

Never has Inspector Montalbanos character a unique blend of humor cynicism compassion earthiness and love of good food been more compelling than in Andrea Camilleris third Montalbano novel The Snack Thief. This edition featuring a new look cover design. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machinegunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicilys coast only Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima an impoverished house cleaner and sometime prostitute whose young son steals other school childrens midmorning snacks. But Karima disappears and the young snack thiefs life as well as Montalbanos is endangered when the inspector exposes a vipers nest of government corruption and international intrigue.The Snack Thief is followed by the fourth Inspector Montalbano novel The Voice of the Violin.