The Door of No Return by Sarah Mussi
Lost African gold, royal ancestry, a 300-year-old diary: Zac Baxter has always dismissed his grandfather’s stories. After all, they live in 21st-century England. But then Pops is murdered, their home searched, and Zac framed for a crime he didn’t commit. His “rehabilitation” requires community service in Ghana at [...]
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The Door of No Return by Sarah Mussi - Review
The Private Patient by P.D. James - Review
The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries) by P.D. James
The Private Patient takes a while to get going, as P.D.James takes her time setting her stage — here essentially Cheverell Manor (”regarded as one of the loveliest Tudor manor houses in England”), a property where plastic surgeon Chandler-Powell treats some of his patients. There is not [...]
Poe’s Children: The New Horror edited by Peter Straub - Review
Poe’s Children: The New Horror: An Anthology edited by Peter Straub
There are almost too many good ones to comment on, but here are a few that struck me with particular force: In Elizabeth Hand’s “Cleopatra Brimstone,” a young American woman moves to England in the aftermath of a brutal rape. Once there, she discovers a [...]
The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam - Review
The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
Nadeem Aslam, a Pakistani novelist who lives in England and has visited Afghanistan extensively, has now made his own bid for the fictional peaks. In “The Wasted Vigil,” he ranges across the country’s ancient and modern history, punctuating his narrative with cross-cultural allusions. Unafraid of political complexity, he is also [...]
Cold In Hand by John Harvey - Review
Cold in Hand by John Harvey
Between 1989 and 1998, John Harvey published 10 novels about Nottingham Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick. The Resnick series earned acclaim from critics and other novelists and won every prize available to an English crime writer. Harvey put aside the series and began one about another police officer. By then, the [...]
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