Book Reviews
- T.C. Van Adler: St. Agatha's Breast
- an irreverent tale of murder, sex, and art in a Roman monastery
- Michael David Anthony: Dark Provenance
- a mystery set amidst English Church politics
- E.F. Benson: The Luck of the Vails
- a turn of the century mystery set among the English aristocracy
- Lawrence Block: The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza
- Bernie Rhodenbarr steals a coin and solves a murder
- Marshall Browne: Inspector Anders
The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders; Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools
- Marshall Browne: Rendezvous at Kamakura Inn
- a Japanese policeman faces corruption, mystery and violence
- Andrea Camilleri: The Terracotta Dog
- a Sicilian detective takes a historical excursion
- Patricia Cornwell: Hornet's Nest
- a combined police-procedural and romance
- Garry Disher: Straight, Bent and Barbara Vine
- short Australian crime fiction
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt: The Inspector Barlach Mysteries
The Judge and His Hangman + Suspicion
- Shamini Flint: Inspector Singh Investigates
- a series about a Sikh Singaporean policeman
- Menna Gallie: Strike for a Kingdom
- a mystery set in a Welsh mining village in 1926
- Faïza Guène: Bar Balto
- murder and everyday life in a Parisian banlieu
- Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- an autistic teenager investigates the murder of a dog
- Cyril Hare: An English Murder
- a classic murder mystery with a political twist
- Tony Hillerman: The First Eagle
- Jim Chee finds a Hopi eagle poacher next to a dead police officer
- Peter Høeg: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
- an atmospheric thriller set in Copenhagen and Greenland
- Anthony Horowitz: The House of Silk
The New Sherlock Holmes Novel
- Arnaldur Indridason: Tainted Blood
- an Icelandic murder mystery
- P.D. James: The Murder Room
- a Dalgliesh mystery: classical detective fiction
- P.D. James: Talking about Detective Fiction
- a brief history and overview of the genre
- Yasmina Khadra: Dead Man's Share
- dark secrets from the Algerian War of Independence
- Hans Olav Lahlum: K2 and Patricia
The Human Flies; Satellite People
- John Le Carré: The Constant Gardener
- a thriller about the drug industry in Africa
- Donna Leon: Doctored Evidence
- set in Venice, an Inspector Brunetti novel
- Guillermo Martinez: The Oxford Murders
- a serial killer with a mathematical bent
- Seicho Matsumoto: Inspector Imanishi Investigates
- a murder mystery in 1960 Japan
- Henry F. Mazel: Murderously Incorrect*
- off-beat New York PI Alex Rada gets involved with politics
- James Melville: The Bogus Buddha*
- a superintendent Otani mystery, set in Japan
- Barbara Nadel: Deep Waters
- an Inspector Ikmen mystery, set in Istanbul
- Leslie O'Kane: The Cold Hard Fax
- a frivolously light-hearted mystery
- Sara Paretsky: Blacklist
- PI Warshawski digs up some dirt from the 1950s
- Iain Pears: The Immaculate Deception
- a mystery of Italian art and politics
- Daniel Pennac: The Scapegoat
- crime fiction set in the Belleville quarter of Paris
- Arturo Perez-Reverte: The Flanders Panel
- Qiu Xiaolong: A Case of Two Cities
An Inspector Chen Mystery
- Ian Rankin: A Good Hanging and Other Stories
- twelve Inspector Rebus stories
- Ruth Rendell: Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
- Ruth Rendell: The Babes in the Wood
- Inspector Wexford hunts missing children amid floods
- Ruth Rendell: Talking to Strange Men
- Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night
- mischief and mayhem in an Oxford women's college
- Dorothy L. Sayers: Great Tales of Detection
Nineteen Stories
- Leonardo Sciascia: The Knight and Death*
Three Novellas
- Victor Segalen: René Leys*
- a mystery set in Peking in 1911, at the end of Manchu China
- Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö: The Story of a Crime: the Martin Beck series
- the classic Swedish police procedurals
- Alexander McCall Smith: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
- Botswana's only female private investigator at work
- John F. X. Sundman: Acts of the Apostles
- an infotech conspiracy thriller with real tech
- Antal Szerb: The Pendragon Legend
- a playful Gothic romp dominated by gentle irony
- Paul Thomas: Guerilla Season
- a comic thriller about terrorism in New Zealand
- Olga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead**
- three centuries ago Janina would have been burned as a witch
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán: The Buenos Aires Quintet
- tango and the disappeared: PI Pepe Carvalho in Argentina
- Minette Walters: The Shape of Snakes
- a compelling and original murder mystery
- Morris West: Daughter of Silence
- legal fiction with a dash of mystery
- Fred Yager, Jan Yager: Untimely Death
- a fast-paced psychological thriller set in Manhattan
- Yi Mun-yol: Son of Man
- a theological-historical detective novel
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