Places for Dead Bodies

<p>From Tony Hillerman's Navajo Southwest to Martin Cruz Smith's Moscow an exotic vividly described locale is one of the great pleasures of many murder mysteries. Indeed the sense of place no less than the compelling character of the detective is often what keeps authors writing and readers reading a particular series of mystery novels.</p> <p>This book investigates how police procedural murder mysteries have been used to convey a sense of place. Gary Hausladen delves into the work of more than thirty authors including Tony Hillerman Martin Cruz Smith James Lee Burke David Lindsey P. D. James and many others. Arranging the authors by their region of choice he discusses police procedurals set in America the United Kingdom and Ireland Europe Moscow Asia and selected locales in other parts of the world as well as in historical places ranging from the Roman Empire to turn-of-the-century Cairo.</p>