Alexander McCall Smith’s latest series is The Department of Sensitive Crimes: A Detective Varg Novel. The department in Mälmo, Sweden investigates crimes including a stabbing and missing persons, but as in McCall Smith’s other novels, the crimes are neither explicit nor sensationalized. Instead, this book has a similar feel to the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. The story and characters meander at a leisurely pace. At first, I struggled to get into the book’s rhythm and felt it was too much like Ladies' Detective. By the end, though, I felt fondness for Varg and his colleagues and may be willing to revisit them in the future.
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