Arresting experience
THOUGH The Track Of Sand finds Sicily’s most intrepid police chief in rather pensive form, Andrea Camilleri’s wonderful series of Inspector Montalbano novels hits its 12th instalment without a hint of staidness.
The mystery on offer this time is, as usual, cleverly conceived and meticulously spun. Montalbano awakens one morning to find a horse beaten to death on the beach beside his villa. But by the time he has put in a call to the station and roused his men, the cadaver of the horse has vanished.
