Tag Archives: Mystery & Detective/General
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…
Murder on the Iditarod Trail
by Sue Henry“Adrenaline-pumping . . . [A] polished action mystery . . . [with] dazzling Arctic sights and historical trail markers laid down by the author…
