Skanda-Noir in the Sub-Tropics

Harry Hole is my kind of protagonist. Along with his Northlander cousins Kurt Wallender, Inspector Erlendur, and my flavor-of-the-month, Erik Winter, Harry fuses the come-hither blend of detective genius and lonesome hero that elevates the quotidian “police procedural” to something more. Something else again beyond the throwaway sobriquets of “crime…

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