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China Miéville: The City & the City (Hardcover, 2009, Del Rey/Ballantine Books)

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge …

Review of 'The city & the city' on 'Goodreads'

I didn't know anything about the author and might have put the book down as a run-of-the-mill murder mystery, but it was my only book over a holiday trip and I kept coming back. Slowly it seeped in - this is lovingly crafted detective noir novel with one strange, nearly impossible premise. The more I read the better I liked it, all the way to the end.