Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence
Honour Among Men: An Inspector Green Mystery
A police novel in which a body in the Ottawa River leads to military history, past violence, and present politics. As part of the Inspector Green series, it asks about ethics and responsibility behind the case.
Work Information
A police novel in which a body in the Ottawa River leads to military history, past violence, and present politics.
A police novel in which a body in the Ottawa River leads to military history, past violence, and present politics. As part of the Inspector Green series, it asks about ethics and responsibility behind the case. Bibliographic identifiers are used only when a standalone book or collected volume could be identified.
Review Summaries
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Readers respond to the distinct premise and voice. Many focus on the lingering mood and the characters' circumstances, while some find the rhythm of the plot a matter of taste.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Napoleon and Co
- Published
- 2006-09-01
- Pages
- 352 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.03 x 2.08 x 19.08 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781894917360
- ISBN-10
- 1894917367
- Price
- 3650 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery
Inspector Green is coping with an office job, still eager to get back into the day-to-day fray of policing. His chance comes when an unidentified woman is drowned in the Ottawa River. In her possession is a Medal for Bravery from a peacekeeping mission. As Green and his team dig deeper into the military past, Green finds himself sucked not only into the murky past of a peacekeeping unit but into the high-stakes present of a federal election race. What crime was committed in Yugoslavia more than a decade ago? Is someone still killing to prevent that secret from coming to light? And does the diary of a dead soldier hold the key?
Barbara Fradkin is a retired psychologist who is fascinated with why people turn bad. She has written numerous short stories and novellas as well as the critically acclaimed Inspector Green novels. Two of these, Fifth Son and Honour Among Men , have won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. She lives in Ottawa.
Reviews
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Excellent Read
I’ve enjoyed all of the Inspector Green Mystery series, but this was the best one to date. In reading them in order so expect more fine writing in the rest of the series. This book was well put together, a good story with lots of twists and turns and several stories within the main story. Superb.
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Great Series
This is an excellent CANADIAN series, I was introduced to Barbara Fradkin's charactor through the title "The Whisper Of Legends" while researching The Nahhani River and R M Patterson.
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A great Canadian Mystery
Barbara Fradkin's mysteries are a must for expat Canadians. The settings in Ottawa and Ontario add a great deal. Her books however do stand on their own for fascinating stories and an appealing detective.
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Five Stars
Excellent.
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Less interesting that others in the series
I found this entry in the life of Inspector Green less interesting than the others. I think that is because this one involves the inner workings of the military, a topic which does not interest me at all. Yes, there is some overlap between members of the police and members of the military. Yes, the upper echelons of both are quite political. Yes, there is action and betrayal and suspicious death, but this book is just not as enjoyable as others in the series.