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Book World: Five thrillers to read now - and soon Richard Lipez, The Washington Post March 5, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The Postscript Murders/The Cook of the Halcyon/Dark SkyHoughton Mifflin Harcourt/Penguin Books/G.P. Putnam s Sons/Handout Spring is in the air - and so is intrigue and mayhem - in five first-rate new mysteries and thrillers out this month and next. These twisty, smartly told tales will help put the long, dark winter behind you. - The Cook of the Halcyon, by Andrea Camilleri Before he died in 2019 at age 93, novelist and film director Andrea Camilleri wrote in an author s note that he had adapted the 27th Inspector Salvo Montalbano mystery from an unproduced screenplay. That novel, The Cook of the Halcyon, despite a bloody shootout in the final chapters, is more Buster Keaton than Quentin Tarantino. What makes it especially worth reading - and essential for fans of the series - is the chance to watch the Sicilian next-meal-obsessed ....