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An Obituarist, a Sad Penguin and Many Funerals

Posted on 8 March 202227 May 2022 by Annie

“Death and the Penguin” revolves around an aspiring writer, specializing in short stories, seems to hit it big as a sought-after writer of obituaries as he navigates the bleak reality of post-Soviet Kyiv accompanied by his pet penguin, Misha, who is depressed and has a heart condition. Organized crime, friendship, corruption, death, and survival are…

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Makana Was a Solitary Man

Posted on 16 February 20213 September 2022 by Annie

Parker Bilal’s “The Golden Scales” (2012) features Makana, a former Sudanese police inspector, who had to flee to Cairo. Here, he takes a case from the notoriously corrupt mogul Saad Hanafi, owner of a Cairo soccer team, whose star player, Adil Romario, has gone missing. Soon, Makana is caught up in a mystery that takes…

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Turkish Delight Mystery

Posted on 6 January 20213 September 2022 by Annie

“The Kiss Murder” follows a nameless transvestite nightclub owner turned detective through Istanbul, who tries to solve the murder of one of the clubs drag queens, a crime linked to a blackmail scheme involving letters and photos received from a powerful and conservative businessman. I couldn’t think of a more intriguing premise! This is the…

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Four Corpses at the World Expo

Posted on 9 December 20203 September 2022 by Annie

Have you ever been to a World Fair (World Expo)? I’ve been to one (I think I was ten?), but I don’t really remember much – except for the long car ride with my parents, and feeling overwhelmed ๐Ÿ™ˆ๐Ÿ™‰๐Ÿ™Š In Francisco Josรฉ Viegas’s “Um Crime na Exposiรงรฃo” (1998) three corpses are discovered on the Expo…

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Sergeant Studer

Posted on 13 October 202021 October 2022 by Annie

It’s a hot chocolate kind of a day, and how nice that goes with my next #18Sleuths trip to Switzerland! “Wachtmeister Studer” deals with the death of a traveling salesman that appears to be an open and shut case. Sergeant Studer is confronted with an obvious suspect and a confession to the murder. But nothing…

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Annie Mondegreen

I'm Annie Mondegreen and I'm reading around the world in 18 detective novels (because 80 seemed impossible to conquer and 8 definitely not enough). While doing so, I'm also virtually traveling to the respective countries. Will you join me? [read on]

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Egypt โ€” Finland โ€” India โ€” Japan โ€” Portugal โ€” Russia โ€” Switzerland โ€” Turkey โ€” Ukraine

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