Iva Procházková

The Zodiac Murders: Lightly Dressed Girls

 Vraždy v kruhu: Dívky nalehko  Vraždy v kruhu: Dívky nalehko
Vraždy v kruhu: Dívky nalehko
Paseka, 2016, 340 pp
9788074327728
Goodreads rating
76.2% (Rated by 80 users)
Crime/Detective

A dead girl, dressed only in light lingerie, is discovered in a private garden. The circumstances seem to point towards a sexually motivated murder. Eccentric commissioner Holina, who trusts his police intuition as well as the advice of his former love, the psychologist and astrologist Sabina, tries to infiltrate as deep as possible into the circle of people around the murdered Vietnamese girl. His investigation first leads to Prague’s SAPA Vietnamese marketplace (nicknamed Little Hanoi), but he soon discovers that there is much more at stake. Lightly Dressed Girls is the second book by Iva Procházková about commissioner Holina from Prague’s Murder Division, following Man at the Bottom. Procházková’s detective stories have also been turned into a popular series for Czech Television.

Praise for Man at the Bottom

“The clever, realistic, skilfully constructed and in many ways unconventional plot is one of the best to be found in Czech detective novels in recent years.”

— Pavel Mandys, Hospodářské noviny

“The author’s narrative style is elegant in the way it gradually dispenses information, is attentive to nuances in character and able to work with a wide range of settings.”

— Vítek Schmarc, Respekt

Vraždy v kruhu: Dívky nalehko
Paseka, 2016, 340 pp
9788074327728
Goodreads rating
76.2% (Rated by 80 users)