Personal by Lee Child

Personal by Lee Child
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Surprisingly, still as good as ever. Reacher's funny, cool, and always a little bit smarter and faster than his opponents.

The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters

The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This tale takes a rather different tack to apocalyptic events than most such stories.

The protagonist is a (dedicated) policeman, in a world with a known expiry date: an asteroid is on a collision course with the Earth, and while it may not wipe out all life, it's certainly going to put an end to human civilization. So, many people are happy to let civilization go early, including policemen, and the load falls on the few who stay on their jobs.

When you know the world is going to end, can you—should you—hold it together as long as possible?

Angelica's Smile by Andrea Camilleri

Angelica's Smile by Andrea Camilleri
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Another fine, hilarious, romp from the master of Sicilian crime novels, and his equally masterful translator Stephen Sartirelli.

In this outing, Montalbano needs to solve a series of burglaries. Along the way, he meets the beautiful Angelica, who reminds the inspector of his own teenaged fantasies of the Angelica of Orlando Furioso. Consequently, Camirelli peppers the story with quotes from Orlando Furioso, leaving poor Sartirelli to say "in certain cases I had to retranslate the excerpt because the Reynolds translation no longer contained the textual ambiguities that enabled Camilleri to apply the passage to his own story."  I really don't pity the translator's job, but Sartirelli is always up to the challenge.