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The secret sauce in English crime fiction? Language.
With many book series, quality declines as the volumes multiply.
Preston & Child specialize in blending the historical with the hair-raising.
Popular German author Oliver Pötzsch elevates arcane history.
(But did inspire a trove of Maisie Dobbs novels.)
Novelists draw from history’s myriad injustices to great effect.
A Booker Prize-winning novel poses the question but doesn’t answer it.
A bestselling author explores the ambivalence of a Nazi past.
