In this second installment of Persson's trilogy of police procedurals featuring the "small, fat and primitive" Evert Backstrom, the grand master's most appallingly repulsive (and funniest) character is finally given his fifteen minutes of fame by way of his patented combination of laziness, luck, and an unbelievable sense of timing. A seemingly ordinary murder puzzles Backstrom, who is struggling with strict orders from his doctor to lead a healthier life. His gut feeling proves him right: withi...
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by John S Butler
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by Anna Katharine Green
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by Joan Coggin
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by John W Mefford
Tear Down and Die (Cara MIA Delgatto Mystery, #1)
by Joanna Campbell Slan
Chatfield. The murder of a local art gallery owner - the flamboyantly camp Minim Minikin - after a private view one night in February 1986 and the theft of the painting on display had DCI Sheldon Hunter stumped. After months of enquiry, the investigation turned up nothing. No suspects, no murder weapon, no painting and, indeed no artist. The identity of the painter, Fayne, whose work disappeared that fateful night was as much a mystery to the police as to the art world at large. Reluctantly, wit...
The Riddle of the Third Mile (Inspector Morse, #6) (Inspector Morse Mysteries)
by Colin Dexter
"[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited, and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot". --The New York Times Book Review Inspector Morse isn't sure what to make of the truncated body found dumped in the Oxford Canal, but he suspects it may be all that's left of an elderly Oxford don last seen boarding the London train several days before. Whatever the truth, the inspector knows it won't be simple--it never is. As he retraces Professor Browne-Smith's route through a London netherworld o...