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...suspect, a 57-year old black man from Roslindale, Mass., was transported back to the Brookline police station, where he was charged on six counts, including armed assault with attempt to murder. Because he was acting erratically—according to police he made several more attempts to escape while being held in Brookline—the man was delivered to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to undergo psychiatric evaluation...
...Sweden's murder rate, for example (167 in 2001), is downright puny compared with ours, but that hasn't stopped Henning Mankell. His latest novel, The Return of the Dancing Master (New Press; 391 pages), gives homicide a moody elegance. The victim, Herbert Molin, was a retired police officer with a fondness for jigsaw puzzles who lived in a remote, wooded part of the country. So why would somebody take the trouble to whip every inch of skin off his back and the soles of his feet? And why would that person leave behind bloody footprints in the pattern...
Russia (32,285 homicides in 2002) can lay claim to a worse murder rate than our own, and Boris Akunin takes full advantage of it. His fiendishly witty Murder on the Leviathan (Random House; 223 pages) begins with 10 of them: the entire household of one Lord Littleby has been slaughtered by means of mysterious injections, and Littleby's skull has been bashed in. To add insult to injury, his precious golden statue of the Hindu god Shiva has been stolen. Akunin is the pen name of a Russian academic whose mysteries--all starring stuttering, downy-cheeked young detective Erast...
...Oxford who, with his genteel Western airs, is seemingly bent on out-Englishing the English. His story takes some time to reveal itself as a mystery, but it does so when Obeysekere takes on the case of a respectable English planter--Hamilton--who gets shot in the chest. "Murder, a moonless night, the jungle crowding close...
...paid, but there's nothing for college. Although he is angry and anxious, Heering hasn't called about counseling. Come fall, he plans to vote for George Bush, but he has harsh words for KBR. "If they send a truck on the road now," he says, "it's murder...