Helsinki Police Violent Crimes Unit Detective Jessica Niemi is feeling more out of sorts than usual. Since the death of her mentor, she’s started to feel less in control of the schizophrenic hallucinations that have been her subconscious mind’s way of signaling that she’s overlooked something: a disconcerting if surprisingly helpful trait in an investigator.…
Parisian Police Inspector Henri Lefort is a victim of his own success. Having, however reluctantly, recently solved a wartime murder mystery for the occupying Germans, he is now expected to set aside all his other work and immediately take on another case for them. Never mind how overworked the local police, including his own homicide…
Luke Daniels, a character from the Cotton Malone novels who works at the Magellan Billet with Malone, gets the spotlight in this co-authored thriller. He receives a call from an old friend, Jillian, in desperate need of his help, and Luke arrives to battle a team of operatives determined to kill her. Soon they are…
Archaeologist and university lecturer Dr. Ruth Galloway is used to being sent for whenever human bones are found, even before the police are called in. It helps, of course, that she has a good relationship with the local North Norfolk constabulary. One would think she’d have a great relationship however, given her long-standing romance with…
It’s another slow night for Inspector Mislan Abdul Latif of the Kuala Lumpur Police Contingent’s Office of Special Investigations (D9) when he gets a call from one of the police districts under his unit’s purview. The investigating officer (IO) first called to the scene of a shooting has requested that the D9 step in to…
Years ago, I had lunch with some friends in a London restaurant. It was in a courtyard near Holborn, a strange cobbled yard with a stranger name: Bleeding Heart Yard. When I got home, I Googled the location and found that, in the seventeenth-century, a woman called Elizabeth Hatton (of Hatton Garden fame) was murdered…
Maggie D’arcy is an unforgettable character. In The Drowning Sea she throws caution to the wind and moves to Ireland for the summer. Her life-changing decision is made easier by the difficult circumstances that led to her losing her job as a homicide detective on Long Island, a story told in A Distant Grave. Her…
What a pleasure to finally have the words of Seishi Yokomizo translated into English! Louise Heal Kawai does a wonderful job of translating classic mystery novels, opening up an entirely new collection of books for non-Japanese-speaking fans of Golden Age traditional mysteries to enjoy. Death On Gokumon Island opens as Japanese soldiers—including our hero Kosuke…
