Category Archives: 2011 Global Reading Challenge

I’ve completed this year’s global challenge

Posted on December 6, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

After completing the extreme level of last year’s global challenge I only signed up for the medium level of this year’s challenge as I also had quite a few other challenges on the go this year. I needed to two novels … Continue reading →

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Review: This Thing of Darkness by Barbara Fradkin

Posted on November 28, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

Retired psychiatrist Samuel Rosenthal is beaten to death late one Saturday night in an Ottawa alleyway. Officially the case is being investigated by Sergeant Marie Claire Levesque, new to the Ottawa Police, and she becomes convinced the doctor was killed as part of a … Continue reading →

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Review: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint

Posted on November 15, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

Inspector Singh of the Singapore police is close to retirement age but having done something to annoy his superiors he’s the officer chosen to go to Malaysia to look after the interests of a Singaporean citizen in trouble. Former model … Continue reading →

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Review: White Sky, Black Ice by Stan Jones

Posted on August 15, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

In the first novel of what is, to date, a series of four books, State Trooper Nathan Active has been assigned to the (fictional) small town of Chukchi, in north-western Alaska. Although he was born in the town and is an Inupiat … Continue reading →

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Review: Water-Blue Eyes by Domingo Villar

Posted on June 26, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

As this book opens we meet Leo Caldas, a Police Inspector in the Spanish town of Vigo, as he is participating in the weekly radio broadcast Patrol on the Air, during which people can ring in with questions or complaints … Continue reading →

Posted in 2011 Global Reading Challenge, book review, Domingo Villar, Spain | 18 Comments

Review: Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo

Posted on June 11, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

In 1976 Argentina’s Dirty War had begun and its environment of state-sponsored illegal arrests, torture, killing and forced disappearances provides a brutal backdrop for what would otherwise be a simple tale of a policeman investigating a murder. Superintendent Lascano is asked to … Continue reading →

Posted in 2011 Global Reading Challenge, Argentina, book review, Ernesto Mallo | 23 Comments

Review: Bait by Nick Brownlee

Posted on April 21, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

This is the second book of the African leg of this year’s global challenge. Set in Kenya, it’s written by a British journalist and I was prompted to listen to it after hearing a rave about Ben Onwukwe, the narrator … Continue reading →

Posted in 2011 Global Reading Challenge, book review, Kenya, Nick Brownlee | 6 Comments

Review: The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

Posted on March 20, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

I’m counting this as my first book on the Asian leg of the 2011 Global Reading Challenge. Yasuko Hanaoka is a single mother whose ex-husband, Togashi, still bothers her for money and engages in other nasty harassment. One evening he comes … Continue reading →

Posted in 2011 Global Reading Challenge, book review, Japan, Keigo Higashino | 20 Comments

The Seventh Continent

Posted on March 13, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

For this year’s Global Reading Challenge the requirement from last year’s challenge to read books set in Antarctica has, thankfully, been changed. It’s not that I object in theory to books set there but they do all appear to be … Continue reading →

Posted in 2011 Global Reading Challenge, Adrian d'Hagé (Aus), John le Carré | 12 Comments

Review: Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré

Posted on February 22, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

I chose to read John le Carre’s 24th novel because it is due for discussion on a local TV-based book club next week and I was curious to see how le Carré’s work is travelling these days, having enjoyed some … Continue reading →

Posted in 2011 Global Reading Challenge, book review, International, John le Carré | 13 Comments