The Department of Sensitive Crimes: A Detective Varg Novel (1)

by Alexander McCall Smith

Book Overview

In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult, in Malm , the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Sensitive Crimes Division.

These are their stories.

The first case: the small matter of a man stabbed in the back of the knee. Who would perpetrate such a crime and why? Next: a young woman's imaginary boyfriend goes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1524748218
• ISBN13: 9781524748210
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Nice detective

I really appreciated it that the detective is a decent man; caring and open minded. I also liked the lightheartedness of the story - a cozy mystery but not inane fluff. I enjoyed the intellectual puzzles and philosophical questions within the story.