Archive for November 27, 2010
THE SHADOW WOMAN by Ake Edwardson
Sweden’s youngest ever chief inspector, at thirty-seven years old, cuts his vacation short when one of his team – a black, Swedish-born woman – has her jaw broken at the annual Gothenburg party, an outdoor late-summer festival at which nativist thugs get drunk and run amok, often in motorcycle gangs.
November 27, 2010
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Tags: Foreign Detective, Scandinavian, Sleuth · Posted in: Award Winning Author, Sleuths Series, Sweden, Swedish Crime Writer, Translated, World Literature
EDGE by Jeffrey Deaver
Action-suspense master Deaver’s latest nail-biter pits the narrator, Corte, a government protection expert, known as a “shepherd,” against a ruthless “lifter,” Henry Loving, whose job is to grab the target – a DC cop – and extract information from him by any means possible, meaning torture, as we’ve already seen in a grisly prologue.
November 27, 2010
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Tags: CIA, FBI, Jeffery Deaver, Thriller · Posted in: Thriller/Spy/Caper
