With Agnete Friis. Nina Borg #3. Wow, this was a sad story, but I found some good quotes!
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"I'm sorry, I s peak only Russian, not Ukrainian," said Soren.
"My friend,"..."When you have sat in a chair for almost twenty-four hours without being able to say anything but 'Hello,' 'Thank you,' and 'Where is the toilet?' there suddenly is not as much difference between Ukrainian and Russian as there usually is."
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"What the hell makes you think," she said in her most glacial voice, "that I am anybody's victim?"
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"Are you having a nervous breakdown?" she asked out loud in English.
Why she was speaking English to herself she didn't know.
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What was the matter with this case and these people? Couldn't Søren turn his back for one second without someone else disappearing?
With Agnete Friis. Nina Borg #2. Terribly dark story, with a couple of, perhaps ironically, funny lines. Radiation poisoning, sex trade, including under-age, violence, death.
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Just when exactly had he stopped calling the shots in his own life?
Maybe he never had. Maybe free will had been an illusion the whole time, the biggest scam of all.
With a pastel-ly cover I knew this was going to be a chick book. Good story of a woman in the UK recounting the travails of growing up, her love/hate relationship with her mother, and her relationships with men. Good thing she learned how to cook, it turns out. Good reviews on Amazon, too.
Rick joins the army and becomes a dog handler. His dog was donated to the army by a young boy named Willie. Rick and Cracker are sent to Vietnam. Good story, I was in tears for the last third of the book. I'm glad the book has a happy ending, because for most of these animals, it was not.
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov and an FBI agent investigate a kidnapping.
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"Why do you like doing this?" the girl asked as they put the tools away and cleaned up the mess they had made. "This is very simple. The work I do as a policeman is very complicated," he said. "Why?" "Because I must deal with people, and people are seldom simply good or bad. It is rare for a policeman to be able to fix a problem. One problem creates another one. It doesn't end, and when it does, the end is not simple and the system is not working any better. Does this make sense?" "A little," she said. "It's like what happened to my grandmother." "Yes," said Rostnikov. "When I fix plumbing, I search for the problem, find it, repair it, and receive the gratitude of those who live with the system. Like this leak."
Rostikov heads to Siberia to investigate the murder of a Canadian geologist in a diamond mine. Other members of the team are in Kiev, and of course, Moscow. Diamond smuggling is the theme.
Words I Had To Look Up:
...permafrosted to a depth of 4,760 feet. (pg. 110) -- I didn't know permafrost went down that deep. Wow!
...whether she was twitting him. (pg. 178) -- To taunt, ridicule, or tease, especially for embarrassing mistakes or faults.
What may be the last Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov book as the author passed away in 2009, I find. There's a serial killer in a park, and there's a boxer accused of murdering his wife and his sparring partner. Elena and Iosef get married!
Lew Fonesca is hired to prove that a teen didn't kill a guy everyone hated who was trying to shut down the local high school for gifted students. The Dairy Queen is closed; Lew moves AND buys a car for sixty-six bucks. Victor goes home, too. A small quibble with "twelve hundred years" and "twelve hundred centuries" on page seven, but I'll get over it.
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There were consequences, but there was the promise of windmills. (pg. 146)
Inspector Rostnikov looks for a missing cosmonaut, Sash looks for who stole a motion picture negative, Karpov looks for the murderer of an ESP researcher.
A cop shoots his wife and her lover and then threatens to blow up the building. Lieberman wins the first confrantation with Frankie Kraylaw. Seconnd book in series.