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8 Deadly Pleasures Alan Russell Series: San Francisco detectives Am Caulfield & Stuart SWEDEN Winter Population: Stand-alone Novel: 9,031,000 POLITICAL (approx. SUICIDE population (2003) of Georgia, 9 James Sallis Series: Black New Orleans P.I. Lew Griffin Stand-alone Novel: CYPRESS GROVE (2003) th largest state) Area: 173,000 square miles (slightly larger than California) Capital: Stockholm John Sandford Series: Minnesota Policeman Lucas Davenport; computer whiz Kidd Stand-alone Novel: THE NIGHT CREW (1997) Steven Saylor Series: Gordianus the Finder – Ancient Rome Stand-alone Novel: HAVE YOU SEEN DAWN? (2003) Ray Shannon (Gar Anthony Haywood) Principal Series: Black, Los Angeles P.I. Aaron Gunner Latest Stand-alone Novel: FIRECRACKER (2004) Martin Cruz Smith Series: Russian Inspector Arkady Renko Latest Stand-alone Novel: DECEMBER 6 (2002) Michelle Spring Series: British Female P.I. Laura Principal Stand-alone Novel: THE NIGHT LAWYER (January, 2005) Andrew Taylor Series: Lymouth, England (DI Richard Thornhill) Latest Stand-alone Novel: THE AMERICAN BOY (2003) in U.S. as AN UNPARDONABLE CRIME (2004) Charles Todd Series: Inspector Ian Rutledge, WWI veteran Stand-alone Novel: THE MURDER STONE (2003) Leonard Tourney Series: 17th Karin Alvtegen This author writes more in the vein of a Minette Walters or a Ruth Rendell and stands out from many of her Swedish compatriots who opt for series and police detection. � MISSING (Canongate, 2003; in U.S., Felony & Mayhem, $24.00). Sibylla’s ambition is someday to have a sanctuary, a home of her own, and she is assiduously saving money to reach this goal. Her plans for the future are thrown into disarray when she is framed for a murder that she didn’t commit. With the help of a schoolboy, Patrik, who becomes her friend when he discovers her sleeping in the attics of his school, Sibylla turns detective and solves the crimes. � BETRAYAL (Canongate, 2005) When Eva discovers her husband is having an affair, she plans her revenge. Having left home and sacrificed more than she knew she could lose, she finds solace in a friendship with Jonas, who for the past two years has been keeping vigil beside his girlfriend as she lies in a coma. Then Eva’s own life comes under threat. � SHAME (Canongate, £6.99, 2006). Rating: B [Reviewed by Larry Gandle] Two psychologically damaged women lie at the heart of this compelling psychological thriller. They have really nothing in common and it takes most of the book before their lives become intertwined. Monica is a physician who survived her brother, Lars, and feels the guilt over being the surviving sibling. Lars was, after all, her mothers favorite. Maj-Britt is a morbidly obese woman who hates herself and all of humanity. Riddled with guilt, she has punished herself for her socalled religious Century transgressions Town Constable that were set Matthew out for Stock her by her overzealous parents. While leaving a conference, Monica opts out of driving with another particpant. The man who took her place Stand-alone in the car is Novel: killed and TIME’S Monica FOOL feels (June, she should 2004) have been the one to die. She tries to befriend the man”s widow in an effort to amend Donald for E. her Westlake inadvertently placing her husband Series: into harms NYC thief way. Dortmunder Maj-Britt is contacted and others by an old friend Latest who Stand-alone resides in Novel: prison MONEY after killing FOR NOTHING her child and abusive husband. This correspondence (2003) leads to a certain breakdown for the already damaged Maj-Britt. These two damaged souls, Monica Robert and Wilson Maj-Britt eventually meet and, in a Series: sense, African change “Fixer” each other’s Bruce lives. Medway Latest Is SHAME Stand-alone a crime Novel: novel? THE BLIND I am not MAN sure. OFThere is no crime to speak SEVILLE of. The (2003) suspense rests in what will happen to these two as they slowly decompensate. Yet, the writing is swift and Don sure. Winslow Alternate chapter point of views Series: maintains New Englander suspense Neal and Carey, keeps employee the plot brisk. of TheAs with any successful psychological Bank suspense novel, the characters Latest Stand-alone are the most Novel: important CALIFORNIA element. FIRE In this AND case, LIFE the author (1999) succeeded in creating two interesting and complex women . Overall, SHAME is a very well written novel but again, a crime novel? Not really. This list is to prove a point: that there is a trend of � GUILT (Canongate, 2007) Peter Brolin’s life is a series authors writing stand-alone novels. We’ll leave mess. the subject Heavily of in mystery debt, a failure writers in his who business only write and stand- personal life, he is one of life’s nice-guy losers. Sitting alone in a cafe alones for another article. Now, on to some comments one day he is approached by a woman who obviously on the topic from those in the trenches: mistakes him for someone else. Before Peter can explain she has gone -- leaving behind a package that she wishes to be delivered to her husband. The package and its gruesome Charles contents Todd (the lure writing Peter into team a nightmarish of Charles hunt andfor this Caroline insane, obsessed Todd) on woman Writing - a Stand-alone hunt which eventually THE forces Peter to face MURDER up to his STONE own murky past. Charles and I wrote a stand-alone last year, which came out in November, 2003. We are back to Rutledge for 2004. It was interesting how the stand-alone came Ake Edwardson Chief Inspector Erik Winter, Gothenburg, Sweden about—in a publishing house board meeting it was � SUN AND SHADOW (Viking, $23.95, 2005). suggested that a stand-alone would broaden interest in Erik Winter is the youngest chief inspector in Sweden; he the Rutledge novels by incorporating the homefront wears sharp suits, cooks gourmet meals, has a penchant rather than post-war-1919 or the war years in France. for jazz, and is about to become a father. But he has his And as the homefront was really about how women share of troubles too; a bloody double murder on his doorstep coped, is thrust only the from beginning. the protective Edwardian and Victorian years into doing everything from driving to
�managing NEVER finances, END this (Viking, seemed $24.95, like a great 2006). idea A to heat us. wave So Francesca is smothering Hatton the and Swedish THE coastal MURDER city STONE of Gothenburg. were School born. It’s is out, 1916, and and parks she’s and just beaches buried the are last teeming male with of people. her name—her But a spate grandfather—in of unsolved the rape/murders aftermath of casts the a disturbing Battle of shadow the Somme. on this That particular bloodbath summer. also Chief took Inspec- from tor her Erik the Winter, last of now her five forty-one male and cousins a father, and precipitated assembles the scant his death. but grisly And details so there of the isn’t crimes, anyone and else begins to face to see thean eerie vultures connection at the to funeral a five-year-old who accuse unsolved her rape/murder, family of a case dealings he, in she’d typically never obsessive heard of. fashion, Including has refused murder. to let go cold. It owes more to Daphne Du Maurier than to �romantic FROZEN suspense, TRACKS because revenge (Viking, is $25.95, the theme, 2007). not The saving investigation the poor of afflicted a series heroine. of assaults She and learns a string to defend of child abductions herself very take well, Erik thank Winter you, to in spite “the of flats,” coming the late barren to prairies filling of her rural grandfather’s Sweden whose shoes. wastelands DP reviewer conceal Larry crimes as Gandle sinister liked as the it. In land fact itself. he gave Winter it a glowing must deduce review. the labyrinthine connections between the cases before it is too And the publisher was pleased. Will they want an- late and his own family comes into danger. other? We’ll see when the contract is renewed later this year. It was interesting to try other characters and other themes, Kjell and to write Eriksson in a different style. And Series readers Characters: who were Detectives Rutledge-philes Ola were Haver at first and very Ann Lindell, upset that Uppsala, Rutledge Sweden would be two years in returning— �and then THE told us PRINCESS that they had OF BURUNDI been so absorbed (St. Martin’s, by the $23.95, STONE 2006). that they Homicide forgave us. detective So that’s Ola our Haver tale. and Do we his colleague, have ideas Ann for other Lindell, stand-alones?? investigate the You murder bet. It of opened a wellliked working an interesting class man can and of tropical worms fish creatively! expert. This is a solid police procedural, winner of the Swedish Crime Academy Margaret Award Maron for Best on LAST Crime LESSON Novel, and OF reminiscent SUMMER of the Ed McBain’s “87th (from Precinct” an interview series, on with its emphasis on the work murderandmayhembookclub.com) and lives of the cops. � THE I do CRUEL enjoy inhabiting STARS different OF THE personalities, NIGHT (St. Martin’s, but it’s normally $23.95, within 2007). the Thirty-five-year-old encapsulated experi- Laura Hindersten ence gained goes by to the writing police short to report stories, that her my father, usuala local vehicle professor, for series is missing. variation. Inspector This Ann time Lindell I got and to her colleagues can find no motive for the man’s disappear- explore a new character in depth. As always ance. And when the corpses of two elderly men do turn up, when writing of an amateur sleuth, though, neither of the dead men is the missing academic. there’s the difficulty of making it “real.” Why � THE DEMON FROM DAKAR (St. Martin’s, does this non-professional get involved? What $24.95, can she April logically 2008). do Rating when B+ she [Reviewed isn’t a police by Bev DeWeese] In some ways, Eriksson’s Uppsala police officer, a PI, or even a judge with police con- department is reminiscent of Ed McBain’s 87 nections? In this book, I also wanted to show th precinct with its assortment of interesting cops with human frailities Deadly Pleasures and how realistic a sheltered procedural and details. protected This department, young woman with the focus finally on detective finishes Anne growing Lindell, up investigates by solving the long- baffling death buried of a man family found mysteries in a nearby on river her with own. no She ID and a tattoo doesn’t that has threaten been partially anyone removed. with a gun Naturally, or get their methodical knocked around investigation physically, eventually but leads in them the course to a numof ber the of other book, crimes: she asks a Mexican pointed visitor questions, who will do steals anything to information, rescue his brother deduces from a the Swedish secret prison; hiding some place nervous of low-life criminals ineptly trying to sell drugs; and the owner some important papers, methodically figures of high-end restaurants who has some rather shady finan- out the motive for her grandmother’s murder, cial dealings and who is not honest about his taxes. then sets Though a trap the for cops the are killer believable with and herself generally as likeable, bait the — all most within fully the developed realm of characters plausibility. are the suspects/victims. The love of the two Mexican brothers who come from a poor, isolated village is very touching, and Steve their attempts Hamilton’s to understand comments this on strange the subject: new world of Uppsala are As far both as sad standing and humorous. alone on Slobodan the issue Andersson, of stand- the alones, sleazy I think restaurant Lee Child owner, is gonna is not a be totally the last bad remaining character. He hold-out, treats his at least staff among well, He the gives hard-boiled Eve, a stressed, writers I single can mom, think the of. chance (Maybe to Ian make Rankin? money Did and he to ever investigate do a stand- a new direction alone?) After for her ICE life. RUN At the comes same out time, this she year, is dealing it feels with like two Alex sons is going who may to need need a more break, time and and I might attention be feeling than she a can little give regionalized them. But with everyone the Michigan at the thing, restaurant too... seems So happy yeah, for the her. next Even one is the a stand-alone, local drug dealers set in seem the Hudson relatively low Valley key, of though New York. murder [Editor’s is part Note: of their Ian career Rankin choice. wrote a Part of the great appeal of these Scandinavian spy novel years ago that has just been reprinted in crime novels is the portrait of the Swedish policing that hardcover in the U.K. – WATCHMEN] underlies all of the stories. Though the Swedish citizens expect their government and their police department to care for them, the cops don’t always live up to these standards. Michelle Some Spring cops on are writing homophobic, her first even stand-alone though they have been to seminars to novel be retrained. Others are very sympathetic My next to a novel young is mother a stand-alone. who still Before wants you a loving ask, sexual Laura partner Principal, for herself. P.I. — the Some central try character to understand of the the teenage series that boys began who with show EVERY little judgment BREATH in YOU their TAKE efforts — to appear certainly cool. isn’t The ready cops to retire. don’t In seem fact, like she enemies and her in Sweden. partner Sonny Mendlowitz, her right-hand woman Stevi, and This her lively circle plot of has women many friends strands, are but about eventually to be all the drawn loose into ends what are tied could up. be The the characters, most thrilling both case cops of and criminals, are engrossing Laura’s and career. have emotional depth. This is a very But readable for several crime years novel. now, I’ve had a story up my sleeve that requires a completely new cast of characters. It Inger requires a Frimansson dramatically different setting. Series It requires Character: each major Justine character Dalvikto speak in his or her � own GOOD voice, whereas NIGHT, Laura MY DARLING Principal, in (Pleasure true P.I. Boat Studio, tradition, $16.00, always 2007). insists Justine on telling Dalvik the is a story wealthy herself. woman approaching THE middle NIGHT age, LAWYER who, after is a set tormented in the most childhood extraordinary and a not-much-better part of the extraordinary adulthood, figures city of it’s London time to free — a herself peninsula of the in horrible the River memories Thames that called are the beating Isle of her down. Dogs, This where involves a bright a considerable skyscraper amount world is of rapidly revenge against displacing the people a traditional who made dockside her life community. so miserable, The but rather central than character go the is traditional Ellie Porter slice-and-slash who works the route, night the author shift focuses for a tabloid more newspaper on what’s happening in Canary inside Wharf. Justine’s We head, watch the as the emotional young toll lawyer’s that settling carefully-controlled old scores takes life on is her. thrown off-course by a stalker. (I came to crime �writing as THE a result SHADOW of being IN stalked THE myself WATER by a (Pleasure student Boat who Studio, planned $16.00, to murder 2008). my Justine family, Dalvik so the is topic still is battling one demons, about both real which and I have imagined, passionate while living feelings.) in her family home in Hässelby. THE NIGHT The LAWYER tall, forbidding is not manse the usual was stalker- the last cum-serial-killer novel. It includes muggings, murder, karate and a teenage girl who poses as a creature of the night. It is a psychological thriller that tries to get 9
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