Crime and Punishment

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MYSTERY

December 3, 2012

The Big Exit

By DAVID CARNOY

Reviewed by Anna Mundow

A Sinatra impersonator enmeshed in a Silicon Valley murder.

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MYSTERY

September 27, 2012

Death in Breslau

By MAREK KRAJEWSKI; Translated from the Polish by DANUSIA STOK

Reviewed by Anna Mundow

Murder most foul in Nazi-occupied Poland.

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MYSTERY

July 30, 2012

The Investigation

By PHILIPPE CLAUDEL; Translated from the French by JOHN CULLEN

Reviewed by Anna Mundow

Pitted against a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, an investigator stumbles toward the truth.

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MYSTERY

June 5, 2012

Ashes to Dust

By YRSA SIGURDARDÓTTIR, translated from the Icelandic by PHILIP ROUGHTON

Reviewed by Anna Mundow

The villagers in a tiny Icelandic community hold a key to a mystery buried for a generation.

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

May 22: The video game Pac-Man, featuring "the most iconic character from the golden age of arcade video games," was released on this day in 1980. Over the next decade, gamers spent over $2.5 billion in quarters…

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In the Margin

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

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When the Devil Drives

Thespian-turned-P.I. Jasmine Sharp searches for a missing actress and veteran detective Catherine MacLeod tries to solve the case of a murdered one. Their paths intertwine amid the Scottish theater community with uproarious and gory results.

Story of My People

Recounting the struggles and eventual dissolution of a family textile business in Prato, Italy, Story of My People is a heartbreaking memoir about the personal impact of globalization.

My Struggle, Book Two

A controversial sensation in Norway, A Man in Love is the second book of six in the series, detailing Knausgaard’s separation from his wife, his move to Stolkholm and the dogged pursuit of a mesmerizing poet.