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Vale of Tears (Bradecote and Catchpoll #5) by Sarah Hawkswood (Sept/Oct 25)
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Vale of Tears (Bradecote and Catchpoll #5) - SPOILER Thread - (Sept/Oct 25)
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This is the fourth book in the Martin Beck series, published in 1968. I am really enjoying this series and am so grateful that someone in my 'Reading the Detectives,' book group suggested these.
On a wet November evening in Stockholm, the police are dealing with a protest against the American embassy. In fact, those not involved with what they think is the major issue in the city, almost stumble across what is, in fact, the major event. A busy is found, with eight people dead on board and one in ...more
On a wet November evening in Stockholm, the police are dealing with a protest against the American embassy. In fact, those not involved with what they think is the major issue in the city, almost stumble across what is, in fact, the major event. A busy is found, with eight people dead on board and one in ...more
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Having read and been under-impressed by the first and third books in this much-trumpeted series of ten Swedish police precedural whodunnits, this, fourth, volume finally comes good.
The secret is that the humdrum nature of methodical policing, that is meant to be the great new development by the authors [not], is overlaid by a complex and intriguing investigation into a puzzling new, and an old, case. And a better range of police characters, delving more successfully into thei ...more
Having read and been under-impressed by the first and third books in this much-trumpeted series of ten Swedish police precedural whodunnits, this, fourth, volume finally comes good.
The secret is that the humdrum nature of methodical policing, that is meant to be the great new development by the authors [not], is overlaid by a complex and intriguing investigation into a puzzling new, and an old, case. And a better range of police characters, delving more successfully into thei ...more
Wonderful police procedural mystery. Aside from a few bits about protests against the Vietnam War, this could have been set today - nothing dated about it at all.
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Vanessa
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