Pharmakon by Dirk Wittenborn
Writing a novel is hard. Sometimes a clear structure announces itself; sometimes you just throw everything you’ve got at the canvas and hope it all sticks. “Pharmakon” seems to be in the second category. Its pleasures are many, but the book is trying to be so many things at once — topical [...]
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Pharmakon by Dirk Wittenborn - Review
Top 10 Maverick Mysteries
5. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Old crimes cast long shadows; an attack on a child decades ago leads, by a dark winding road, to the murder of a young woman. This is another one that smashes huge holes in the walls that used to surround the genre. A lot of people used to look down [...]
