Most of us love detective stories. They are as addictive as crossword puzzles and I have been, along with my wife, a passionate lover of mystery and detective fiction for a long time. But lately I have detected a new pattern- while I love a good mystery, I also want the author to be literate and erudite and a joy to read, an author who takes trouble to craft sentences and does not rush headlong into piling coincidences over coincidences, and who introduces a new approach to the genre. So I started to look for authors from different countries. Here is my collection up to date and I would welcome suggestions on books from authors in different countries......
Robert Littell ..(US)..The Company
John Le Carre..( UK)..Absolute Friends
Bikram Chandra..(India) Sacred Games
P. Matthiessen.. ( Denmark).. Smilla's Sense of Snow
Hanning Meskell.. ( Sweden)...Faceless Killers
Leslie Forbes.. ( Canada).. Bombay Ice
Andrea Camilleri..( Italy)..The Patience of the spider
Arnaldur Indridason.( Iceland)..Silence of the grave.
Mohammad Hanif.. (Pakistan).. The case of the exploding mangoes
The Number 1 Ladies Detective agency..( Boatswana)..Alexander McCall Smith
A corpse in Koryu..(set in North Korea) .. James Church
Here are a number of new books worth looking at......
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