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Pantheon Books

Mind's Eye

BOOK ADDED: Sun, 28/09/2008 - 12:00am by Karen Chisholm

Chief Inspector Van Veeteren knew that murder cases were never as open-and-shut as this one: Janek Mitter woke one morning with a brutal hangover and discovered his wife of three months lying facedown in the bathtub, dead. With only the flimsiest excuse as his defense, he is found guilty of...Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Van Veeteren
No in Series: 
1
Status: 
To Be Read

The Miracle at Speedy Motors

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 05/03/2014 - 12:00am by Karen Chisholm

Precious Ramotswe, traditionally built owner of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, feels that her tiny white van, which has carried her about her business with such steadfastness and reliability, should be replaced by a more modern vehicle. Precious's usually loyal husband, the wonderful...Read more

Series Name: 
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
No in Series: 
9
Status: 
To Be Read

The Poison Oracle

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 02/07/2008 - 12:21pm by Karen Chisholm

Take a medieval Arab kingdom, add a ruler who wants to update the kingdom’s educational facilities, include a somewhat reserved English research psycholinguist (an Oxford classmate of the ruler) invited to pursue his work on animal communication, and then add a touch of chaos in the person...Read more

Status: 
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The Return

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 02/07/2008 - 12:33pm by Karen Chisholm

Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is forced to unlock the secrets of a nearly perfect murder in this taut psychological thriller.

On a rainy April day, a body—or what is left of it—is found by a young girl. Wrapped in a blanket with no hands, feet, or head, it signals the work of a...Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Van Veeteren
No in Series: 
3
Status: 
Read

The Spy's Wife

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 02/07/2008 - 12:26pm by Karen Chisholm

After discovering that her thoroughly predictable husband is a Russian agent and her marriage an elaborate deception, Molly Keatley retreats to Yorkshire, where Monk, a British agent, seems more solicitous than necessaryRead more

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Tefuga

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 02/07/2008 - 12:21pm by Karen Chisholm

Guided by his mother's sixty-year-old diary, a son re-enacts her arrival in Nigeria and the next twelve tempestuous months of her life in an attempt to solve her mysterious and bloody deathRead more

Status: 
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Villain

BOOK ADDED: Sat, 10/09/2016 - 12:18pm by Karen Chisholm

The body of Yoshino, a female insurance saleswoman, is found at Mitsue Pass, an eery inland spot in the southernmost region of Japan, rumoured to be home to ghosts. A young construction worker, Yuichi, is soon arrested by the Nagasaki police on suspicion of strangling the victim.As Yuichi...Read more

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Who Guards the Prince

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 02/07/2008 - 12:26pm by Karen Chisholm

When the ritual murder of a British journalist leads Detective Inspector McHarg to a conspiracy--concealed behind the perennial secrecy of the Masonic Lodge, McHarg joins Prince Arthur, Duke of Wenlock, as the conspirators' targetRead more

Status: 
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Woman With Birthmark

BOOK ADDED: Thu, 25/06/2009 - 1:04pm by Karen Chisholm

A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander . . . 

Woman with Birthmark by Håkan Nesser is the fourth title in his atmospheric Van Veeteren series.

A young woman shivers in the December cold as her mother'...Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Van Veeteren
No in Series: 
4
Status: 
To Be Read