The Streets of Babylon [Paperback]

****'Burman's extraordinary feeling for history and eccentric wit make for a most unusual kind of crime caper.' Independent on Sunday --Independent on Sunday

As far as escapism goes, this is as good as it gets: at times I felt as if I was actually in the book.' Vulpes Libris --Vulpes Libris

'This mystery novel is an entertaining and sometimes humorous trip to London back in the year 1851...Death's translation to English is so smooth there isn't any evidence that the story was first told in another language. The characters are vivid, and the reader will feel as if they are part of the events as they unfold. The story takes us on a captivating trip back in time with interesting - and at times quirky - individuals, who quickly come to feel like friends.' Blogcritics.org --Blogcritics.org

'Full of period detail and sheer exuberant cheek'

****'Burman's extraordinary feeling for history and eccentric wit make for a most unusual kind of crime caper.'

'As far as escapism goes, this is as good as it gets: at times I felt as if I was actually in the book.'

'Full of period detail and sheer exuberant cheek'

Self-centred, tactless and irresistible, Euthanasia Bondeson makes her debut on the London crime scene. It is 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition, and the East End slums are crawling with prostitutes, pimps, 'mollies' and waifs. Together with a Welsh police inspector and the swoonsome Professor Devindra, the successful Swedish authoress goes in search of her beautiful companion Agnes, who has disappeared in the narrow streets and alleyways of London and is feared dead. With skirts flapping (and occasionally disguised as a man) Euthanasia forges her way through this romp of a crime novel that brings the 19th century to life in a whirlwind of dark drama and secret desires.

Carina Burman, Ph.D, Assistant Professor at Uppsala University, has written extensively on 18th and 19th century literature and has made a name for herself as a skilful writer of pastiche reflecting the language and atmosphere of days gone by. In 2001, she published a biography of Fredrika Bremer (Bremer: En Biografi), but she is also a well-known novelist and The Streets of Babylon: A London Mystery is her fifth novel.