num_pages: 256
description: The latest mystery in Andrea Camilleri?s internationally bestselling Inspector Montalbano series  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, The Patience of the Spider pits Inspector Montalbano against his greatest foe yet: the weight of his own years. Still recovering from the gunshot wound he suffered in Rounding the Mark, 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.
language: English
title: The Patience of the Spider
titlecomplete: The Patience of the Spider (Inspector Montalbano, #8)
characters: Antonio Peruzzo, Officer Agatino Catarella, Adelina Cirrionciò, Francesco Lipari, Nicolò Zito, Martha Gianturco, Giulia Mistretta, Valeria Cusumano, Susanna Mistretta, Pippo Ragonese, Salvatore Mistretta, Tina Lofaro, Giuseppe Fazio, Police Commissioner Bonetti Alderighi, Gallo, Livia Burlando, Francesco Lune, Commissario Salvo Montalbano, Angela Di Bartolomeo, Carlo Mistretta, Mimì Augello, Filippo Minutolo
genres: Italian Literature, Noir, Mystery, Italy, Fiction, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Crime, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 6069
places: Sicily
series: Inspector Montalbano
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: CWA International Dagger
publisher: Penguin Books