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| Song of the Lion by Anne HillermanMystery. Attending a high school basketball game, Navajo police officer Bernadette Manuelito hears a car bomb explode in the parking lot. It's thought that the owner of the car, a lawyer mediator working with land developers, the Hopi, and the Dani, was the target, so Bernie's husband, Sgt. Jim Chee, guards him. Meanwhile, Bernie works with retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn to uncover a link from the bomb to one of his earlier cases. While the late Tony Hillerman focused on Leaphorn and Chee, his daughter Anne places Bernie at center stage in her previous two books in the series and in this 21st entry. For another fascinating female lead, try Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak mysteries. |
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| A Rising Man by Abir MukherjeeHistorical Mystery. Newly arrived in 1919 Calcutta, former Scotland Yard detective Sam Wyndham joins the Imperial Police Force and lands a big case: a murdered British official is found with a sinister note in his mouth. Working with likable Sgt. Banerjee and jealous sub-Inspector Digby, Wyndham travels through all levels of Colonial Indian society to find a killer. With atmosphere to spare, this delightful debut should please fans of other India-set historical mysteries, such as Barbara Cleverly’s Detective Joe Sandilands series, Miranda Carter's The Strangler Vine, and Laurie R. King's The Game. |
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| What the Dead Leave Behind by Rosemary SimpsonHistorical Mystery. A spring blizzard hits 1888 New York City, taking the lives of many. Was lawyer Charles Linwood one of them? That's the way things appear, but his fiancée, strong-willed heiress Prudence MacKenzie, suspects foul play. With help from Charles' friend, former Pinkerton agent Geoffrey Hunter, Prudence gathers her courage and hunts for the truth. Want more richly detailed books set around this time period? Try Lawrence H. Levy's Mary Handley novels or Tasha Alexander’s Lady Emily Ashton mysteries. |
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Focus on: Mysterious Russia
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| The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin; translated by Andrew BromfieldHistorical Mystery. It's a lovely spring day in a Moscow park when a university student -- the heir to millions -- unexpectedly kills himself while playing "American roulette." Though he's young and inexperienced, Erast Fandorin of Moscow Police's Criminal Investigation Division believes there's more to the story. Questioning the dead student's friends and an English Baroness opening a Moscow orphanage, Fandorin discovers the death may be related to a terrorist group. This fast-paced 1st in Russian author Boris Akunin's Erast Fandorin mysteries beautifully captures the feel of 1876 Russia and offers up a thoroughly entertaining mystery to boot. |
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| A Man Without Breath by Philip KerrHistorical Mystery. The Nazis want evidence of a rumored Soviet massacre of Polish officers (Josef Goebbels hopes to use it as propaganda against the Soviets). To that end, Bernie Gunther of the War Crimes Bureau heads to Smolensk, where the former Berlin cop works with the Wehrmacht's Prussian aristocrats, interviewing people and sifting through the evidence. Though the truth is elusive, Bernie, an ethical man who doesn't like the Nazis, keeps at it, uncovering more crimes in the process. Enjoyed this excellent 9th in a popular series and want more World War II-era crime stories? Pick up Alan Furst's historical spy novels or David Downing's John Russell series. |
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Murder in retribution
by Anne Cleeland
When their relationship comes to light, Chief Inspector Michael Sinclair and rookie detective Kathleen Doyle must deal with office politics while trying to solve a series of underworld murders linked to both the Russian mafia and an Irish terrorist group, who are both fighting for a lucrative underground business. By the author of Murder in Thrall.
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Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel
by Martin Cruz Smith
Police Procedural. Things have changed in investigator Arkady Renko's Russia since his 1st case, 1981's Gorky Park, but it's still dangerous for anyone to ask too many questions. So when investigative reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from her sixth-floor Moscow balcony, the authorities quickly rule it a suicide and then misplace the body. Renko suspects murder and begins his own investigation, discovering connections between Tatiana and the death of a mob billionaire the same week, a dead translator's encoded diary, and a Cold War secret city. As the cynical yet tenacious Renko looks for answers, he finds himself asking a teenage chess genius for help. This 8th book in a stellar series is "one of Smith's strongest" (Washington Post).
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A whisper to the living
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
A Whisper to the Living continues the adventures (some would say trials and tribulations) of Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union. Rostnikov is one of the most engaging and relevant characters in crime fiction, a sharp and caring policeman as well as the perfect tour guide to a changing Russia. Rostnikov and his team are searching for a serial killer who has claimed at least 40 victims. And then there is the problem of protecting a visiting British journalist who is working on a story about a Moscow prostitution ring...and in doing so Rostnikov and his team uncover a chain of murders that lead to a source too high to be held accountable if the police want to keep their jobs. Or their lives.
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The gentle axe
by Roger Morris
In the aftermath of two grisly murders in St. Petersburg, investigator Porfiry Petrovich traces leads to a pornography ring and more genteel societal circles before encountering dangerous resistance from powerful high-ranking groups.
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