Long Spoon Lane

By Anne Perry

Ballantine Books, $25.95, 336 pages

ISBN 0345469275

Anne Perry’s latest addition to the excellent Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series is a compelling tale of murder, terror, and corruption in 1893 London.

My review of this book appeared originally in another publication and is reprinted here:

Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason
Publisher: St. Martin’s Minotaur.
ISBN: 0-312-34070-2

Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson, a fifty year old veteran police officer in Reykjavik, Iceland, knows that murders are actually quite rare in his country.