Tag Archives: Mystery & Detective/General
Suffer the Little Children
by Donna Leon“Donna Leon is the undisputed crime fiction queen . . . [Her] ability to capture the city’s social scene and internal politics is first-rate, as always, but this installment carries extra gravity and welcome plot twists that make it one of the series’ better efforts.” —Sarah Weinman, Baltimore Sun…
State Counsellor
by Boris AkuninFrom the writer who reinvented the Russian crime novel, a gripping tale of political subterfuge and murder in turn-of-the-century Moscow featuring the inimitable hero…
A Sea of Troubles
by Donna Leon“Brunetti’s humane police work is disarming, and his ambles through the city are a delight.” —The New York Times Book Review
Sandrine’s Case
by Thomas H. Cook“Cook has shown himself to be a writer of poetic gifts, constantly pushing against the presumed limits of crime fiction.” —Los Angeles Times Book…
Quietly in Their Sleep
by Donna Leon“[Leon] offers a fresh, exhilarating take on that ambiguous city, with its labyrinthine alleyways and politics, its glamour, its grottiness. . . . An…
A Question of Belief
by Donna Leon“The humid, oppressive Venetian summer is palpable in Donna Leon’s 19th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery. . . . Leon creates such a rich sense…
A Noble Radiance
by Donna Leon“Goes a long way to confirming Donna Leon’s claim to have taken literary possession of Venice . . . A Noble Radiance finds her…
Murder in Mount Holly
by Paul TherouxFrom Paul Theroux, the internationally best-selling author of such classics as The Great Railway Bazaar, comes Murder in Mount Holly, a funny, slightly misanthropic…
