Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools

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PRRISE FOR m wmiin lEE OF ItHSPEOm Hinms
"This is an observant, reflective book, with a hero whose self-aware intelligence Is" the dominating factor in what develops. The result is impressive: complex, disturbing, and intimate." —Houston Chronicle
"Just as Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen appears to have left the Italian crime-fighting scene for good, along comes a writer from Australia to happily jump in and fill the gap with a great dfcal of style and imagination."
—The Chicago Tribune
"The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders is something new: Its convolutions come from the setting, the charatter we're examining is that of the city itself. Following the carrot of B'rowne's plot, we tumble on through the streets and alleys, and just when vve think we're catching up, with a quick twist of perspective we're off again in Browne's clever footsteps."
—Laurie King, author of O Jerusalem
"Mystery debuts don't.come-much betteFfhan this. Simply written but to gorgeous effect The Woodm... Tovább

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PRRISE FOR m wmiin lEE OF ItHSPEOm Hinms
"This is an observant, reflective book, with a hero whose self-aware intelligence Is" the dominating factor in what develops. The result is impressive: complex, disturbing, and intimate." —Houston Chronicle
"Just as Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen appears to have left the Italian crime-fighting scene for good, along comes a writer from Australia to happily jump in and fill the gap with a great dfcal of style and imagination."
—The Chicago Tribune
"The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders is something new: Its convolutions come from the setting, the charatter we're examining is that of the city itself. Following the carrot of B'rowne's plot, we tumble on through the streets and alleys, and just when vve think we're catching up, with a quick twist of perspective we're off again in Browne's clever footsteps."
—Laurie King, author of O Jerusalem
"Mystery debuts don't.come-much betteFfhan this. Simply written but to gorgeous effect The Woodm Le^,of InspectorAnder^ straps us into a tmly hair-raising ride that nonetheless has the feel of a.'classic hero's joumey." ;; —Otto Penzler
¦'This dazzling myst§|^' ^ebut Should Win an admiring audience. The author's Italian setting is a cesspool of despair and evil with only a small flame of hope flickering^ Readers will root for Inspector Anders to return to nurture that flame." —^Publishers Weekfy ^staired review)
"Anders has thp right stuff to become the latest in a long and" wonderfully melancholy line of world-weary European cops saddled with an impossible job." —Booklist
"This debut in a new series is flavored with precise, efficient prose, colorful descriptions, and dense European flavor." —Library Journal Vissza