The Track of Sand
Commissario Montalbano • Book 12
by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli
Narrated by Grover Gardner
About This Audiobook
Inspector Montalbano wakes from troubled dreams to find a horse's bludgeoned carcass on the beach in front of his home, a crime that vanishes before his team can investigate it, leaving only tracks in the sand. The case multiplies as Rachele, a champion equestrian, and one of Sicily's wealthiest men both report missing horses, and Montalbano's home is subsequently broken into and ransacked. Andrea Camilleri's twelfth Montalbano novel sits at the intersection of organized crime, the secretive world of thoroughbred horseracing, and the inspector's persistent melancholy.
Grover Gardner's narration gives Montalbano's self-reflection its proper weight without allowing it to slow the investigation's momentum. His reading of the novel's atmospheric passages along the Sicilian coast is evocative, and his handling of the Mafia-adjacent underworld of horseracing gives the criminal milieu its necessary complexity. At just over five and a half hours, The Track of Sand is a compact, satisfying Montalbano.
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