Book - The Patience Of The Spider

Very ambivalent about this book. Can't decide whether I like it or not. Merits a second reading later.

It's definitely the most introspective one in the series, and departs significantly from previous books. For the first time, Montalbano's not solving a murder, but a kidnapping. And he's not really supposed to be solving anything. He's recovering from a gunshot wound, Livia's come to nurse him, and Mimi's taken over his duties temporarily. He's instead consulting with the investigative head.

His disillusionment is strongest in this work, as he tries to understand a hatred and revenge so naked that it overrode all other considerations.