so-soThis was a difficult read for me because there are no chapter breaks, and the only POV is that of Dr. Riddle, and I was never sure how much to trust him. The story jumps backward and forward in time, adding another complication. The writing is occasionally repetitive, and the initial sections were so ornate that I nearly bailed. But at the same time I had to find out whodunnit. So a tricky one to rate and trickier to recommend.
1) A sub-genre of crime fiction often featuring an anti-hero MC. The MC is often, but not always, a private investigator. If they are part of an official police unit they are at odds with their supervisor & most of their coworkers. Social & class issues are frequently looming in the background of the case, & there's often an existential or cynical undercurrent.
2) Literally every Dorothy Hughes book I've read. Also Red Harvest & the very unusual👇
#12Booksof2021 In #September I read one of the strangest, & memorable, crime novels of the year: Joel Townsley Rogers' The Red Right Hand. Title is based on a Milton line & as Lansdale said, “is a bit of a hallucinogenic adventure.“ I also immediately jumped into the second book in Yancey's trilogy after loving The Monstrumologist. The Wendigo was as gritty & unsettling as the first one. Even more so. At the time it gave me Malignant vibes.👇
pickI was intrigued by this novel while browsing online recently due to the title. I was curious if perhaps it was the inspiration for the iconic Nick Cave song (it isn't, although I discovered after some research that another work of lit: Paradise Lost is). Despite the lack of the Cave connection, I ordered it because I was so intrigued by the description. Inis St. Emre & his fiancée Darrie drive from NY to Connecticut to get married. Along the way
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