Using his renowned wit and warmth, Alexander McCall Smith brings a unique perspective on Scandinavian crime. Equal parts hilarious and heartening, The Department of Sensitive Crimes is a tour de farce from a literary master.4/5(). “The author of more than 80 books has not lost his literary touch, but his latest account of the doings at Sweden’s Department of Sensitive Crimes hits a new high of hilarity.” —Muriel Dobbin, The Washington Times “With astonishing heart and mind, Alexander McCall Smith launches a bold and original new series/5(). The Department of Sensitive Crimes: A Detective Varg Novel (1) (Detective Varg Series) Hardcover – Ap. by. Alexander McCall Smith (Author) › Visit Amazon's Alexander McCall Smith Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more/5().
"The author of more than 80 books has not lost his literary touch, but his latest account of the doings at Sweden's Department of Sensitive Crimes hits a new high of hilarity." —Muriel Dobbin, The Washington Times "With astonishing heart and mind, Alexander McCall Smith launches a bold and original new series. The Department of Sensitive Crimes is available from the 16th April. Alexander McCall Smith, The Right Attitude to Rain We shall change all that because it is possible to change the world, if one is determined enough, and if one sees with sufficient clarity just what has to be changed. Equal parts hilarious and heartening, The Department of Sensitive Crimes is the first book in Alexander McCall Smith's new Detective Varg series. Celebrated author Alexander McCall Smith turns his keen eye for human psychology to the wildly popular genre of Scandi-noir, as the spate of crime novels from Scandinavia that focus on gritty, often grotesque, crimes is sometimes known.
The Department of Sensitive Crimes is the first full-length novel in the Detective Varg series by popular British author, Alexander McCall-Smith. And he’s having a lend of us, the reader. If that’s not obvious from the title and the characters, then the cases they deal with should confirm it. The Department of Sensitive Crimes. ISBN: Publisher: Anchor Books (Penguin Random House) Publication Date: First published 16 April by Pantheon (Penguin Random House) The Department of Sensitive Crimes is a Scandinavian Blanc novel. Scandinavian Blanc is different from Scandinavian Noir: there is nothing noir about the world of Ulf Varg, a detective in the Sensitive Crimes Department in the Swedish city of Malmo. Book review: The Department Of Sensitive Crimes, by Alexander McCall Smith. It is amusing to imagine a reader unfamiliar with Alexander McCall Smith’s work picking up this book and finding it.
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