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Jul 27, 2014 · Andrea Camilleri's Angelica's Smile is the 17th book in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series. It's not as tightly plotted as the others, but Camilleri's trademark charm is still in place.
Jan 1, 2010 · Andrea Camillieri, in Angelica’s Smile, the 17th novel to feature Chief Inspector Salvo Montalbano, proves that dead wrong — if you’ll pardon the pun! The Vigàta police are beset with a string of complicated burglaries, and, while that may sound dull, it’s anything but.
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Taken by Angelica’s charms, he 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 his haze and unmask his challenger.
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- The Shape of Water #1
- The Terracotta Dog #2
- The Snack Thief #3
- The Voice of The Violin #4
- The Paper Moon #9
- The Potter’s Field #13
- Angelica’s Smile #17
- Montalbano’s First Case and Other Stories
- The Sicilian Method #26
- Riccardino #28
Italian 1994, English 2002 The Pasture, formerly communal grazing land, has become home to the local prostitutes and drug dealers. When the body of an engineer Silvio Luparello, an important man, is found in flagrante the coroner quickly declares it to be natural causes. Inspector Montalbano doesn’t buy it. Amid the corruption, vendettas and gorman...
Italian 1996, English 2002 The Terracotta Dog opens with a clandestine phone call between Montalbano and an old mafioso. That leads the detective to a secret grotto in a cave in the mountains where the bodies of two young lovers are discovered, guarded by a giant terracotta dog for 50 years. Thus begins an exploration of the island’s wartime past. ...
Italian 1996, English 2003 An elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator, while at sea an Italian fishing trawler is machine gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily’s coast. Montalbano is the only one to see the link between these two events. It all leads to the beautiful Karima, a poor immigrant house cleaner struggling to raise her son an...
Italian 1997, English 2003 A young women is found suffocated and naked on her bed. This arouses the inspector’s anger and pity. His deputy Mimi Augello may be the lothario but Montalbano has an eye for the ladies too. The charms of the victim’s beautiful friend Anna beguile him. The dead woman’s aging husband, a noted local doctor, is a suspect but...
Italian 2005, English 2008 As he gets older, Inspector Montalbano is plagued by existential questions. But he doesn’t have much time to wax philosophical before the gruesome murder of a man – shot in the face at point-blank range with his pants down –commands his attention. Add in two evasive, beautiful women as prime suspects, dirty cocaine, dead ...
Italian 2008, English 2011 A dismembered corpse is discovered in a clay field just outside Vigàta. Historically this was the burial place of strangers and it’s a long time since it’s been used. Sure enough, the man appears to be a foreigner. Montalbano remembers the story from the Bible about Judas’s betrayal of Jesus, his act of remorse and the mo...
Italian 2010, English 2014 A spate of burglaries of the rich and powerful has the inspector stumped until he realises there’s more than the stolen goods connecting the victims. Then he meets beautiful young Angelica and is smitten, causing him to lose all focus and begin acting like a love lorn schoolboy, which inevitably threatens his relationship...
Italian 2013, English 2016 This is where we go back to the young Montalbano investigating his very first case in Vigàta, in which he stumbles upon a young girl lurking outside a courthouse with a pistol in her handbag. When she is taken in for questioning and won’t utter a single word, Montalbano must find another way to learn who she is trying to ...
Italian 2018, English 2020 Mimi Augello is visiting his married lover when her husband unexpectedly returns and he is forced to flee. Mimi climbs out the window and drops to the balcony of the apartment below. In the dark he sees a body lying on the bed and now has the tricky task of reporting a crime without giving himself away. He has to tell Mon...
Italian 2020, English 2021 An early morning call from a man named Riccardino summons Montalbano to a meeting. Montalbano knows it’s a wrong number so he hangs up. An hour later Montalbano gets another call, this time it’s Catarella advising him of a murder. A man gunned down in the street outside a café. The victim turns out to be none other than R...
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Jun 24, 2014 · Closing in on 60 and jaded to the max, droll Sicilian Inspector Montalbano views nearly every crime as a nuisance, including a series of burglaries perpetrated on wealthy locals. Nevertheless, he and quirky subordinates Catarella and Fazio set about dutifully interviewing victims.
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Among those burgled is the young and beautiful Angelica Cosulich, who reminds Montalbano of the love interest in Ludovico Ariosto's chivalric romance, Orlando Furioso. Taken by Angelica's charms, he imagines himself back in the medieval world of jousts and battles.
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Angelica's Smile is the seventeenth novel in the gripping and darkly funny Inspector Montalbano mysteries by Andrea Camilleri. When members of Vigàta's elite are targeted in a series of perfectly executed burglaries, Inspector Montalbano reluctantly takes the case.
- Andrea Camilleri
