The Streets of Babylon is a historical crime novel. The setting is London in 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition. Euthanasia Bondeson makes her debut on the crime novel scene. She is self-centred, tactless, 
With skirts flapping Euthanasia forges her way through this romp of a crime novel, surveying the streets which Sherlock Holmes himself will not tread until a whole generation later.
“I have seen a good many cities. Berlin is a charming conglomeration of small villages, while Paris is truly urbane. But London surpasses them both. One can never quite make out London and the Londoners. Everything is here”
Swedish writer Carina Burman is a Ph.D and Assistant Professor at Uppsala University. She 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. She is the author of five fiction novels. This is her second crime book.
It is a good, exciting book. It didn’t really get to me, though. Maybe it’s because I am male. But Euthanasia was a little too remote for for me, a little too elevated in her comments about the world. However, while I didn’t like the characters all that much, I did enjoy the plot. Recommended with some reservations, is my conclusion.
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