Angelica's Smile

The seventeenthinstallment of the beloved New York Times bestselling series that boastsmore than 600,000 books in printThe last four books in Andrea Camilleri's InspectorMontalbano series have leapfrogged their way up the New York Times bestsellerlist, and Angelica's Smile will not disappoint this series' ever-growing fan base.A rash of burglaries has Inspector Salvo Montalbano stumped.The criminals are so brazen that their leader, the anonymous Mr. Z, startssending the Sicilian inspector menacing letters. Among those burgled is theyoung and beautiful Angelica Cosulich, who reminds the inspector of thelove-interest in Ludovico Ariosto's chivalric romance, Orlando Furioso. Besotted by Angelica's charms,Montalbano imagines himself back in the medieval world of jousts and battles.But when one of the burglars turns up dead, Montalbano must snap out of hisfantasy and unmask his challenger.