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I just found an interesting mystery blog out of New Zealand called Crime Watch. The blogpost from Thursday, November 18 refers to an article from The Guardian about settings for mystery books, written by crime fiction expert Maxim Jakubowski. I'm posting "The Top 10 Crime Locations" according to Jakubowski. For the full article, including explanations for these choices, click here for guardian.co.uk.

1. Los Angeles in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep (1939)
2. London in Derek Raymond's I was Dora Suarez (1990)
3. New Orleans in James Lee Burke's The Neon Rain (1987)
4. Paris in Fred Vargas's Have Mercy On Us All (2001)
5. Bologna in Barbara Baraldi's The Girl With the Crystal Eyes (2008)
6. Brighton in Peter James's Dead Simple (2005)
7. Miami in Charles Willeford's Miami Blues (1984)
8. San Francisco in Joe Gores's Spade and Archer (2009)
9. Oxford in Colin Dexter's The Dead Of Jericho (1981)
10. New York in Lawrence Block's Small Town (2003)