Never has Inspector Montalbano’s character — a unique blend of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food — been more compelling than in The Snack Thief. 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. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished house cleaner and sometime prostitute, 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.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK in 2005
Publisher: Picador
Pages: 224
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9781447235101
ISBN 10: 144723510X