A little humorous\, a little mysterious\, The Department of Sensitive Crimes is the first book in Alexander McCall S mith's Detective Varg mysteries and the selection for this month.
\nThe story centers on Ulf Varg\, Detective Inspector in the Sensitive Crime s Department of the Criminal Investigation Authority for the city of Malm& ouml\;\, Sweden. He generally investigates crimes that are not too threate ning\, but definitely odd. Like all Swedish detectives\, Ulf leads a life beset with problems of one sort or another. His name\, Ulf Varg\, literall y translates to "wolf wolf\," but he is far from vulpine\, considering him self a sympathetic\, well-educated\, and likeable man with an interest in both Scandinavian and modern art.
\nThroughout this first novel of t he series\, we get to meet Ulf\, the crimes he investigates\, and his coll eagues. His dog Marten\, the only dog in Sweden capable of lipreading\, is possibly suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder. His colleague Erik i s only interested in fishing. Carl is the son of a famous Lutheran theolog ian. Ulf's psychotherapist\, Dr. Svensson\, makes observations on Ulf that both enlighten and confuse him. Then there's the time someone was stabbed in the back of the knee and the peculiar goings-on in a spa on Sweden's s outh coast. It seems the sensitive crimes never cease.
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