Inspector Green of the Ottawa Police Service is called to a homicide on Ottawa's Lebreton Flats which turns out to be a female killed by someone who is very strong. As he investigates, he soon learns of connections to the Canadian Armed Forces and specifically its Peace Keeping forces which were assigned to the Serbian/Croatian conflict.

When a young enthusiastic female detective from his command is brutally beaten in the military town of Petawawa, Green and his team put in a full effort to find the culprit. Included in the effort is an attractive female detective from Halifax. Behind the crimes is the soldiers' experiences in Serbia and Croatia and their commanding officers efforts to keep some of the those stories secret. Include an national election campaign in the mix and it is a very complicated plot that is only completely unraveled on the last page.

I will be looking forward to my next Inspector Green case. ( )

A young woman, evidently hard-drinking and possibly a prostitute, is found by the Canal at the opening of Honour Among Men, Barbara Fradkin's fifth Inspector Green novel, but it soon becomes clear that her death is far more complicated than that characterization might suggest. Inspector Green's investigation leads him first to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and then to Petawawa, the Canadian Forces military base not far from Ottawa; the investigation also leads back in time to the break-up of Yugoslavia and the UN peacekeeping mission there in the early 1990s. When one of his own officers is critically injured in the course of the investigation, Inspector Green must summon all his resources and intelligence to out-think the killer, who is leaving a growing pile of bodies in his wake.... Inspector Green is one of the more interesting protagonists in crime fiction today: not altogether likeable, but driven by his sense of justice and able to use his intuition to see beyond the obvious to finally attain the truth. This particular novel in the series focuses on military matters and how Canadians perceive their role in the international "peace-keeping" community, which was quite fascinating. And, of course, the story itself is well-plotted and fairly clued, always of paramount importance in a crime novel! I enjoy Fradkin's writing style and her psychological insights into the way different people think, and this novel was no exception. As ever, it's always better to have read a series in chronological order, but it's not entirely required in order to understand what is going on in this series. Recommended. ( )