num_pages: 352
description: The Terra-Cotta Dog opens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with a mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and some dying words that lead inspector Montalbano to a secret grotto in a mountainous cave where two young lovers, dead fifty years and still embracing, are watched over by a life-size terra cotta dog. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him, heedless of personal danger, on a journey through the island's past and into a family's dark heart amid the horrors of World War II.'
language: English
title: The Terra-Cotta Dog
titlecomplete: The Terra-Cotta Dog (Inspector Montalbano, #2)
characters: Commissario Salvo Montalbano
genres: Audiobook, Detective, Thriller, Crime, Italian Literature, Noir, Italy, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction
ratings_count: 12324
places: Sicily, Italy
series: Inspector Montalbano
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Premio Fedeli
publisher: Penguin Books