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The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri (view source)
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There was one point when I felt very cross with Mr Sartarelli. In the course of reading the book I Googled various words and phrases which I didn't understand, with variable results. ''Sicilchim'' didn't get a result at all. Then I found, right at the end of the book, with no prior reference which I could find, several pages of notes. Sicilchim is apparently shorthand for Sicilia Chemica, or Sicilian Chemicals. I'd have liked to have these notes as footnotes on the individual pages.
If you like police-procedural novels I think you'll like this book. There are some short-comings but I'll certainly be looking out for the later novels in the series, [[''The Terracotta Dog]] '' and ''The Snack Thief''. If you are looking for other similar novels set in Sicily then you might like to read Michael Dibdin's [[Blood Rain]], although this is not one of the best in the Zen series. A better Aurelio Zen novel would be [[Dead Lagoon]], which is set in Venice. You might also like Donna Leon's Guido Brunetti novels. I particularly enjoyed [[Fatal Remedies]].
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