Short takes: mystery

摘要

Summer is a-coming in, bringing a rich array of crime fiction that will transport readers from Elizabethan England and Weimar Berlin to modern-day Ireland, India, and West Africa for the perfect vacation escape.rnReaders first met Inspector John Madden in River of Darkness, where he employed then unsanctioned psychological-profiling methods to identify a serial killer in post-World War I Britain. When Madden reappeared in Blood-Dimmed Tide, it was 1932; he had retired from active duty but was drawn into a local case involving a murdered child. Now, another 12 years have passed, and Polish immigrant Rosa Nowak is murdered during a London blackout.