Posts Tagged ‘Mysteries’

Topkapi, Istanbul

Published April 7th, 2011

Topkapi, Istanbul
Kindly contributed by Jason Goodwin, author of Lords of the Horizon and the Ottoman Empire Series, now numbering four. Following an excursion to Venice, Istanbul’s old rival, in The Bellini Card, Yashim flings himself back into the heart of the Ottoman enterprise in An Evil Eye, where much of the action takes place in the
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Wallander’s Swan Song

Published April 5th, 2011

Wallander’s Swan Song
Long before Lisbeth Salander hacked her way into readers’ hearts, Inspector Kurt Wallander was cracking cases amidst the rural landscapes of southern Sweden. Wallander, a world-weary, diabetic detective prone to health problems and morose introspection, burst onto the scene with Faceless Killers in 1991 and Dogs of Riga soon after. Since then, author Henning Mankell
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Dear White Van

Published March 10th, 2011

Dear White Van
What’s a minibus driving along Highway 1 in Vietnam (see Rough Guide’s Make the Most of Your Time on Earth) doing on the cover of the new paper edition of Alexander McCall Smith’s The Double Comfort Safari Club, 11th book in the series manifestly and gloriously set in Botswana? We haven’t a clue (our detective’s
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Flavia de Luce

Published March 1st, 2011

Flavia de Luce
I have never much cared for flippant remarks, especially when others make them, and in particular, I don’t give a frog’s fundament for them when they come from an adult. —The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag Move over Miss Marple; Flavia de Luce has arrived. Perhaps the most precocious (and opinionated) young detective to
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