"while he believed in the law, had spent his career working within the justice system, what he really had to answer to was his conscience"
All in mystery
Among the Ruins by Ausma Zehanat Khan
“Khattak re-examined his assumptions yet again. A black chador said nothing about a woman’s thoughts or hopes or her engagement with her country’s political future.”
Long Black Veil by Jennifer Finney Boylan
"What does it mean to be haunted, to have ghosts in your life? Most of them are not the supernatural kind, most of them are the ghosts of yourself, of your younger self"
A Separation by Katie Kitamura
This is ultimately a psychological mystery about one of the most mysterious relationships human beings have, the decision to try and share a life with another and make it work
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
She is alone and an insomniac who falls asleep listening to the “low murmurings about road traffic accidents of drunken altercations outside Level 2 Nightclub on All Saints Passage, all of which she can safely ignore because they are far too lowly for the Major Incident Team,” on an unauthorized police radio on her bedside table.