Inspector O Novels: A Corpse in the Koryo (Audiobook)

from Carlathelibrarian

I am not sure about this book. I thought it was going to be your typical murder mystery, but it was not. It takes place in North Korea so there is a storyline about the Military Police, Investigation Bureau and a network of citizens. There is a murder but that is not really the story. Inspector O...

from Olivermagnus

A Corpse in the Koryo is the first book in the Inspector O series. Inspector O is a North Korean police officer silently railing against the system, yet forced to do just enough to keep himself out of a prison camp. Inspector O is first sent on a mysterious job where he is told to photograph a ca...

from FicusFan

This is a mystery set in modern day North Korea. It is also the start of the Inspector O series. I really wanted to like it more than I did. The setting intrigues me, The writing was good, it flowed well and made as much sense as the story allowed. That was my biggest problem with the book. There...

from FicusFan

This is a mystery set in modern day North Korea. It is also the start of the Inspector O series. I really wanted to like it more than I did. The setting intrigues me, The writing was good, it flowed well and made as much sense as the story allowed. That was my biggest problem with the book. There...

from MarthaHuntley

This is a mystery where even the mystery remains a mystery. The book is long on atmosphere and local color(lessness), and short on crime. It does make the point that in those countries where law and order are tyrannically upheld, the government tends to be the one that is criminal. For setting, t...