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Alexander McCall Smith (2003)
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
Anchor
Mma. is the "Miss Marple of Botswana". Close to the edge of the Kalahari, the big woman runs the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. With sharp intelligence, dignity, and humor she deals with cheating husbands, missing daughters, and suspicious witchdoctors. Superb, different, a rare pleasure. More...
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Maj Sjowall / Per Wahloo (1993)
Roseanna.
Vintage
The first book in the Martin Beck series of crime novels by the Swedish writer couple Sjowall / Wahloo. Written from a left-wing political perspective, the novel portrays the social and political climate of Sweden in the late 1960s and 1970s. Fortunately, the political propaganda is packaged in intelligent suspense and a plot populated by authentic characters. More...
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Maj Sjowall / Per Wahloo (1992)
The Locked Room.
Vintage
Smart, well trained and tough policemen, who competently investigate crime scenes may be the personnel of CSI TV series. In this crime novel the police force is understaffed, incompetent and poorly motivated. Their investigation of a series of bank burglaries ends in a pathetic disaster, typical for the social condition in Sweden during the late 1960s. More...
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Guillermo Martinez (2005)
The Oxford Murders.
MacAdam / Cage
An old lady, who worked on the Enigma Code during WWII, is found murdered in Oxford, UK. Arthur Seldom, logician and author of a book on the mathematics of serial killings solves the case - and others that soon pile up - with mathematical precision. Gödel's theorem, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and Wittgenstein's paradox are discussed, but do not break the thrill or fast pace of the book. A cerebral mystery
novel. More...
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Zane Radcliffe (2005)
The Killer's Guide to Iceland.
Transworld
Callum Pope has fled his native Glasgow to make a fresh start in Iceland with Birna Sveinsdottir, a pretty glaciologist. As he moves in with Birna, her mother and Birna's eleven year-old daughter tensions begin to rise in the three-generation household of strong females. More...
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Maj Sjowall / Per Wahloo (1993)
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke.
Vintage
Martin Beck, on vacation with his family on a small Swedish island, is called off to Budapest to investigate the disappearance of a journalist. A thriller, set in Eastern Europe, from the well-known Swedish crime fiction writers. With acid political comments about liberals and conservatives. More...
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