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    "title": "The Snack Thief",
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    "description": "<p>Never has Inspector Montalbano's character - a unique blend of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food - been more compelling than in Andrea Camilleri's third Montalbano novel, The Snack Thief. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily&rsquo;s coast, only Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished house-cleaner, whose young son steals other school children&rsquo;s mid-morning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief&rsquo;s life &ndash; as well as Montalbano&rsquo;s &ndash; is endangered when the inspector exposes a viper&rsquo;s nest of government corruption and international intrigue.</p>",
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