{"id":11643,"date":"2019-02-10T11:05:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T16:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=11643"},"modified":"2021-06-04T13:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T17:13:45","slug":"the-overnight-kidnapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11643","title":{"rendered":"The Overnight Kidnapper"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Overnight Kidnapper<\/a><\/em> (2015\/2019) Andrea Camilleri<\/a> translated by Stephen Sartarelli<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The 23rd Inspector Montalbano book.<\/p>\n

The joy of these stories isn’t the mysteries, although they are never bad, but the time spent with Montalbano and all those around him.<\/p>\n

Like Catarella.<\/p>\n

\u201cFazio in?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNah, Chief, \u2019e\u2019s atta scene o\u2019 the kidnappin\u2019 insomuch as the guy\u2019s o\u2019 the Flyin\u2019 Squat wannit \u2019im onna scene an\u2019 axed \u2019im to come cuz \u2019e knew more stuff \u2019n \u2019em, \u2019em meanin\u2019 the Flyin\u2019 Squat. But Isspecter Augello\u2019s \u2019ere onna premisses.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Mimi.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn your recent past as a whoremonger . . .\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI never went to prostitutes,\u201d Augello objected. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn your past life as a womanizer, then…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Pasquano.<\/p>\n

(I)n the doorway he nearly ran straight into Pasquano, who was just coming in. <\/p>\n

The doctor bowed and stepped aside. \u201cPlease, please, don\u2019t let me prevent you from leaving. You have no idea how lovely the sight of your back is.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But especially Fazio, who (despite his records fascination) remains the solid and dependable character and in many ways the moral center of the stories.<\/p>\n

It was hard to tell what she had looked like before. The face was so swollen that it seemed as if the killer had wanted to erase her very features. The same for her breasts and chest, which had been reduced to a formless mass of flesh. <\/p>\n

Good thing the rest of the body was still inside the bag, because that would have been a hard sight to bear. <\/p>\n

Fazio took several steps away, turned his back to the others, and vomited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That passage especially struck me, for Fazio has been a cop for 20-some years, but is still hurt by the things he can see on the job.<\/p>\n

The mystery is somewhat convoluted and ridiculous, but it hardly matters, since all I really wanted was to spend time living in Montalbano’s world.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Penguin Books
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Overnight Kidnapper (2015\/2019) Andrea Camilleri translated by Stephen Sartarelli The 23rd Inspector Montalbano book. The joy of these stories isn’t the mysteries, although they are never bad, but the time spent with Montalbano and all those around him. Like Catarella. \u201cFazio in?\u201d \u201cNah, Chief, \u2019e\u2019s atta scene o\u2019 the kidnappin\u2019 insomuch as the guy\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[193,8,42,38],"tags":[94,95,54,435],"class_list":["post-11643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10","category-mystery","category-police","category-translated","tag-andrea-camilleri","tag-inspector-montalbano","tag-italy","tag-stephen-sartarelli"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-31N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4374,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4374","url_meta":{"origin":11643,"position":0},"title":"The Age of Doubt","author":"Michelle","date":"February 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Age of Doubt (2008\/2012) Andrea Camilleri translated by Stephen Sartarelli On this second reading, I really didn't like this story. 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