Books to read

Detective novels take on the world | csmonitor.com: "By far, the biggest successes on the international mystery front are the best-selling novels about a charming female sleuth in Botswana ('The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' and others) written by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith. But reviewers and readers are also raving about detective series set in Sweden, Canada, Spain, and Italy. Such unexpected locales as Bosnia, Algiers, and the Himalayas also serve as bases for fictional detectives. Some of their escapades are landing on American bookshelves, thanks to English translations."