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Title: The Scent of the Night
Subtitle: Inspector Montalbano, Book 6
Author: Andrea Camilleri
Narrator: Mark Meadows
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-10-17
Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
The Scent of the Night is the sixth comic detective audiobook in the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri.
Montalbano learned how hard it was to put on a wetsuit while in a dinghy speeding over a sea that wasn't exactly calm. Mimì, at the helm, looked tense and worried.
'Getting seasick?' the inspector asked him at one point.
'No. Just sick of myself.'
'Why?'
'Because every now and then I realise what a stupid shit I am to go along with some of your brilliant ideas.'
When an angry octogenarian holds a terrified and lovelorn secretary at gunpoint, Inspector Montalbano is reluctantly drawn into the case. The secretary's boss, a financial advisor, has vanished along with several billion lire entrusted to him by the good citizens of Vigàta. Also missing is the advisor's young colleague, whose uncle just happens to be building a house on the site of Inspector Montalbano's very favourite olive tree.
Ably abetted by his loyal and eccentric team, Montalbano, the food-loving, commitment-phobic inspector, returns for another delicious investigation served up in vintage Camilleri style.
The Scent of the Night is followed by the seventh audiobook in the series, Rounding the Mark.
Members Reviews:
This went way too fast
This is a wonderful story, although it has a different kind of quality to it. It seems to be much more about Montalbano himself and his dealings with the darkness that is permeating everything. Of course Fazio, Catarella, and Mimi make their appearances, but this feels very Salvo-centric. And the ending exploded upon me without any realization that it was coming. It was shocking for that reason, and because of literally how the story ends: in an unexpected, abrupt and grim way. There is a lot of sadness in this story, and I am not quite sure what to do with that except start the next book and maybe it will be a big lighter. But first, I kind of want to read that Faulkner short story that Salvo starts to feel he's inside of.
This Scicilian detective is wry, funny, conflicted and clever.
Always love reading Andrea Camilleri stories about Montalbano. I also love "Hunting Season" and "The Brewer of Preston". If only I could vacation in Vigata......
Salvo is grumpy in this one
The Smell of the Night is probably the oddest title for a book that you'll find, but one of Montalbano's secrets is that he associates colors with smells. It is either that or the Inspector swims in the East River and not the Mediterranean outside his small apartment. Yes, our famous detective lives near the beach and he has an older woman who cooks and cleans for him and dotes on him. She leaves him notes. Heaven forbid if Salvo goes without food. Adelina makes sure that she leaves him caponata in the fridge. Oh, and don't wake up Salvo in the middle of the night. He is not very polite. Livia is angry with him in this one and Salvo is solving two mysteries this time. He is rather grumpy in this one. His world is falling apart and everyone around him takes the hit.
The Charm of Inspector Montalbano
I enjoy the t.v. series made in Italy and available here in Code 4 DVD, so much that I must have my Montalbano fix often.