A review by drifterontherun
The Wings of the Sphinx by Andrea Camilleri

4.0

While I didn't like this Montalbano mystery as much as the last, August Heat, it is still a solid entry to the series. There is quite a lot going on here, between details regarding Montalbano's now-rocky relationship with Livia, a side story about a faked-kidnapping, and the (as usual) excellent passages on Enzo's amazing trattoria (and other food notes) that the "main" story, that of the murder of a tattooed Russian girl, seems to get lost in the shuffle. That this book is a relatively brisk 231 pages condenses matters even further, so that in the end you're left feeling like things were all a bit rushed. Perhaps some of this will be covered in the next Montalbano, but nevertheless this entry whets the appetite for more!