The Snack Thief: an Inspector Montalbano Novel 3

<p><b>Never has Inspector Montalbano's character - a unique blend of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food - been more compelling than in Andrea Camilleri's third Montalbano novel, <i>The Snack Thief.</i></b><br> <br> When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents.<br> <br> His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished house-cleaner, whose young son steals other school children's mid-morning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's life - as well as Montalbano's - is endangered when the inspector exposes a viper's nest of government corruption and international intrigue.<br> <br> <b><i>The Snack Thief</i> is followed by the fourth Inspector Montalbano novel, <i>The Voice of the Violin</i>.</b></p>