Crime and Punishment

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March 28, 2013

Gods and Beasts

By DENISE MINA

Reviewed by Anna Mundow

Tight-knit cops and robbers collide on Glasgow's mean streets.

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CRIME

August 31, 2012

Münster's Case

By HÅKAN NESSER; Translated from the Swedish by LAURIE THOMPSON

Reviewed by Anna Mundow

A Scandinavian murder mystery of disturbing intimacy.

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CRIME

July 18, 2012

Where the Bodies Are Buried

By CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE

Reviewed by Anna Mundow

A gangland murder has connections that reach deep into Glasgow's past.

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CRIME

June 27, 2012

Brenner and God

By WOLF HAAS

Reviewed by Anna Mundow

When a detective-turned-bodyguard's young charge is kidnapped, he uncovers a world of corruption.

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CRIME

May 21, 2012

Truth Like the Sun

By JIM LYNCH

Reviewed by Anna Mundow

A mastermind of Seattle's boom era makes a sunset run for office -- and the secrets of past corruption come to light.

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CRIME

March 28, 2012

The Angst-Ridden Executive

By MANUEL VÁZQUEZ MONTALBÁN; translated by ED EMERY

Reviewed by Anna Mundow

A detective with a sense of humor -- and justice -- walks the streets of Barcelona.

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CRIME

March 7, 2012

Hanging Hill

By MO HAYDER

Reviewed by Anna Mundow

A young woman's murder opens the door to a police inspector's dark odyssey through exploitation and depravity.

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CRIME

January 16, 2012

The Face Thief

By ELI GOTTLIEB

Reviewed by Anna Mundow

A con artist's double deception.

About the Columnist

Anna Mundow, a longtime contributor to The Irish Times and The Boston Globe, has written for The Guardian, The Washington Post and The New York Times among other publications.

Daybook

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Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin.

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The Long List

Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now

Minotaur

This newly reissued Cold War classic profiles an Israeli spy obsessed with an English girl half his age, and his attempts to win her love without ever revealing his true identity.

The Innocence Game

Three Chicago journalism students attend an “innocence” seminar that will teach them how to release the wrongfully accused from prison. But as innocents are jailed, a killer roams free, and the students are next on the hit list.

Little Green

Walter Mosley's suave detective Easy Rawlins is back among the living after a literal cliffhanger of a car crash, in pursuit of a LSD-addled boxer roaming Los Angeles, 1967.