Reviews and Blog Posts: detectives

The first novel in a series focusing on Welsh Detective Constable Fiona Griffiths, this is both a good procedural mystery and an interesting character study. Prostitutes are being murdered, and DC Griffiths is the only one who sees the connection between them a shipping millionaire who died in a plane...

If you're a fan of Norwegian crime novels, Anne Holt's Hanne Wilhelmsen is a character that you'll want to get to know. Only recently translated (but first published in 1993), Blind Goddess is the first book featuring this tough detective in the Oslo Police Department. (This one takes place many...