Tag Archives: police procedural

Telling Tales, by Ann Cleeves

Posted on August 29, 2010 by

Telling Tales Pan, 2005 The second novel to feature Inspector Vera Stanhope is an involving mystery set in the fictional coastal village of Elvert in East Yorkshire. Emma and James are a young married couple with a new baby, who … Continue reading →

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Havana Red, by Leonardo Padura

Posted on August 29, 2010 by

HAVANA RED Havana Red by Leonardo PaduraTranslated by Peter BushBitter Lemon Press 2005 (first published in Spanish in 1997) The Havana Quartet, of which this novel is the first, is a highly regarded contribution to the crime-fiction genre. The story is … Continue reading →

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Chinatown Beat, by Henry Chang

Posted on August 29, 2010 by

Chinatown Beat (Detective Jack Yu) Soho Crime, 2006. I recently read a very positive review of the latest in the series of books about Jack Yu, a Chinese police detective in New York, so I thought I would try the … Continue reading →

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Day After Day by Carlo Lucarelli

Posted on August 26, 2010 by

Day After Day Translated by Oonagh Stransky. Vintage, 2005. (First published in Italy 2000). Day After Day is, after a bit of a rocky start, a tight and exciting follow-up toAlmost Blue. It again follows an investigation led by Ispettore Grazia … Continue reading →

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Cop Killer, by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

Posted on August 22, 2010 by

  Cop Killer (The Martin Beck Series) translated by Thomas Teal   Although written in the 1970s, this ninth volume in the Martin Beck series remains a strong, relevant novel today. Two stories are told, both sent in the Malmo … Continue reading →

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The Silence of the Rain, by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

Posted on August 22, 2010 by

The Silence of the Rain: A Detective Espinosa Mystery (Inspector Espinoza Mysteries) Translated by Benjamin Moser Picador, 2003. First published in Brazil, 1998. I like mysteries in which the reader knows more than the detective, as one can see how … Continue reading →

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A Beautiful Place to Die, by Malla Nunn

Posted on August 22, 2010 by

A Beautiful Place to Die This impressive debut novel is set in South Africa in 1952, in the immediate aftermath of the election which resulted in the Boer government and specifically the Immorality Act, by which the “white”, coloured” and … Continue reading →

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The Dragon Man by Garry Disher

Posted on August 20, 2010 by

The Dragon Man (Hal Challis Novel) (Hal Challis Mystery 1) The Dragon Man is first in a series of five, soon to be six, novels about Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his Sergeant, Ellen Destry. It’s one of my favourite … Continue reading →

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Willing Flesh by Adam Creed

Posted on August 20, 2010 by

Willing Flesh The second in the series featuring DI Staffe (William Wagstaffe) of the City of London police is an atmospheric crime novel set among the rich financiers who always seem one step ahead even while credits crunch and bubbles … Continue reading →

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Needle in a Haystack, by Ernesto Mallo

Posted on August 18, 2010 by

Needle in a Haystack Translated by Jethro Soutar. Inspector Lascano lives in Buenos Aires in the 1970s, at the time of the military dictatorship. It was a terrible regime, first encountered by me in book form in Isabelle Allende’s marvellous … Continue reading →

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