THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY A. A. Milne Vintage Classics (www.randomhouse.co.uk/vintage/vintageclassics/) £7.99 Anyone who has perused Reader Dad at any point during its so-far short life could not help but notice that I like my fiction dark and, if at all possible, violent. So, it will probably come as something of a surprise (as it does […]
Read More THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY by A. A. MilnePLUGGED Eoin McNamee (www.eoincolfer.com) Headline (www.headline.co.uk) £12.99 Irish crime fiction is going through a golden era at the minute. Look at the wealth of crime fiction coming out of Ireland – both North and South – over the past handful of years, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find a more buoyant market anywhere else. From […]
Read More PLUGGED by Eoin ColferNO-ONE LOVES A POLICEMAN Guillermo Orsi Translated by Nick Caistor MacLehose Press (maclehosepress.com) £7.99 Argentina, December 2001. Against the background of a country in economic free-fall, we meet Pablo Martelli, a sixty-something bathroom appliance salesman with a history in the National Shame, an elite branch of the police force which lived up to their nickname […]
Read More NO-ONE LOVES A POLICEMAN by Guillermo OrsiALTAR OF BONES Philip Carter Simon & Schuster (www.simonandschuster.co.uk) £12.99 Thrillers and I have had something of a rocky relationship this year, going from one extreme (The Obelisk) to the other (Sanctus). Philip Carter’s Altar of Bones, I’ll say right at the outset, comes somewhere close to the Sanctus end of the spectrum. Carter is, […]
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