books about: inspector     books:     Inspector      Unseen: A Mystery (Inspector Anders Knutas Mysteries) Mari Jungstedt St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006 entertaining serial killer Swedish police procedural The friends meet at a resort on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. Helena is with Per; Emma with her spouse; Olle and his neighbors Eva and Rikard; and finally Beata and her American husband are all there. However, instead of an amiable get together at ...             This Night's Foul Work (Chief Inspector Adamsberg Mysteries) Fred Vargas Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008 Bravo, Fred People who love Fred Vargas's Chief Inspector Adamsberg mysteries will really enjoy THIS NIGHT'S FOUL WORK. It's wonderfully atmospheric, the characters are complex and believable, and the plot is engrossing and completely unpredictable. I think it's one of the best ...             The Return: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) Hakan Nesser Vintage, 2008 Another great Scandinavian writer Another excellent example of mystery writing that does NOT depend on sex, violence and four letter words to tell a story that keeps you wondering about the outcome. You soon feel you know Van Veeteren and the conditions he works under as if they are old friends. You ...             The Paper Moon (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries) Andrea Camilleri Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008 Subtle Sicilian delight This was an excellent book, and one for any fan of Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti mysteries. The author creates a vivid picture of Sicily and develops the plot and characters with singlar style and humor. Reading the book made me want to check out the author's other ...             The Patience of the Spider (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries) Andrea Camilleri Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007 Sheer delight This is a wonderful and delightful mystery. In fact, the whole series is out of the ordinary and a unique sort of reading experience. Highly recommended for the thoughtful reader. Minimal violence but lots of thoughtful suspense.             Black Seconds (Inspector Sejer Mysteries) Karin Fossum Harcourt, 2008 Compelling Henning Mankell introduced me to the wonders of Scandinavian crime writing, and led me to Karin Fossum, who is even better at it than our venerable Swedish friend. She's a little bit different in approach though: Mankell, who we all know, sticks, in his Wallander books ...             Mind's Eye: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery (Inspector Van Veeteren Mysteries) Hakan Nesser Pantheon, 2008 Another Chief Inspector to love! This is the first in the Inspector Van Veeteren mystery series. It is an intricately plotted mystery with several murder victims, but it is impossible to say more without giving away a major plot development. So if you buy this book, don't read the description given on ...             Not in the Flesh: A Wexford Novel (Inspector Wexford Mystery) Ruth Rendell Crown, 2008 BOTH AUTHOR AND NARRATOR IN TOP FORM This audio book is more than a double treat, it's a sure fire can't-stop-listening-to winner when you pair the estimable acting talents of Tim Curry as narrator and the award winning writing of Ruth Rendell. Curry won many of us with his unforgettable debut in the ...             Tooth and Nail (Inspector Rebus Novels) Ian Rankin St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1996 Wolfman. He had wanted to update Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" for modern times, Ian Rankin writes about his first Inspector Rebus novel, "Knots and Crosses" in the introduction to the British compilation "Rebus: The Early Years" (unfortunately, not ...             Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus Novels) Ian Rankin St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1995 Mr. Hyde's Edinburgh, not McCall Smith's... This is the first of Rankin's Edinburgh crime novels featuring detective John Rebus. Alexander McCall Smith gave Rankin a "cameo" part in his serial novel 44 Scotland Street, mentioning in his introduction that Rankin thought his portrait much "nicer" than his real ...             When the Devil Holds the Candle (Inspector Sejer Mysteries) Karin Fossum Harvest Books, 2007 Great author Characters that are real, not forced or overdrawn. Plot development that is believable and deceiving, with a style that smoothly involves the reader mentally, laying clues that may be clues or not, always with unexpected plot finishes that are satisfying. Read one of ...             Payment in Blood (Inspector Lynley) Elizabeth George Bantam, 2007 Payment In Blood I have not long been a reader of Elizabeth George but in short time I have read every one of her books. I so highly recommend her that I would like to take an ad out for the best writer, of mystery fiction, I've read. I don't care which book you pick up, it will be ...             Exit Music Ian Rankin Little, Brown and Company, 2008 It's Not the Underworld You Need to Worry About, it's the Overworld Almost exactly two decades ago Ian Rankin's first Rebus novel, Knots and Crosses, began with the sentence, "The girl screamed once, only the once." Twenty years later and Rankin has used the same sentence to begin the last, as it did the first, of the Rebus books. ...             Wolf to the Slaughter (Chief Inspector Wexford Mysteries) Ruth Rendell Fawcett, 1987 Absolutely stunning Anita Margolis, young, beautiful, carefree, has vanished into thin air. She left her home to attend a party one wet evening, but has not been seen since. She is reported missing soon after by her brother, whom she shared a flat with, the acclaimed but eccentric artist ...             The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, Book 1) Andrea Camilleri Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005 A very Sicilian novel Dottore Montalbano is urbane, intelligent, smooth, guttoral, well dressed, well read, well spoken, sharp as a tack, and as cynical as they come without resorting to bitterness. He is a detective in the Sicilian town of Vigate, a town seemingly overruned with crime, ...          products you might be interested in search for books adamsberg, inspector, montalbano, mysteries, slaughter, veeteren      toavi.com    web randomly chosen beauty: Essie Gloss-E