The Department of Sensitive Crimes
Alexander McCall Smith
"The case that Ulf had mentioned to Dr. Svensson at the end of his last therapy session had started, as many of the department’s cases did, with a simple report from the local police."
"The case that Ulf had mentioned to Dr. Svensson at the end of his last therapy session had started, as many of the department’s cases did, with a simple report from the local police."
"A gentle rain kicked in as Decker trudged along the pavement."
"For the past twenty minutes, Joe Leaphorn, former Navajo police lieutenant turned private investigator when the job suited him, had focused on not losing his temper."
"Mathilde Luz was a good-looking girl all right and still wearing the clothes she’d been murdered in: the hat, the coat, and the dress all from C&A, but no less becoming for that."
"His name was Sir Felix Paige, and he’d been a friend of Ashworth since the two were boys together at Eton."
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