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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Granta; 122 pages; 2014. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun and Arthur Oliver. Short. Sharp. Powerful. That's the best way to describe Leonardo Sciascia's The Day of the Owl. First published in 1961 and set in the early 1940s, this novella looks at the difficulty one policeman faces when he tries... | |
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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Faber & Faber; 164 pages; 2014. Deirdre Madden's The Birds of the Innocent Wood, first published in 1988, is a mysterious, opaque tale about dark family secrets and strained relationships spanning two generations. It reads a bit like a thriller, helped by a few fast-paced early chapters, before settling into an intriguing... | |
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| | | | | After the recent murder in Champton, things are still in upheaval as the parish is joined with Upper and Lower Badsaddle. These means that Canon Daniel Clement has to work with the incumbent vicar there, and it is safe to say that there are differences of opinion - while Daniel seeks a compromise, his opposite... | |
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| | | After being somewhat disappointed with The False Inspector Dew, I was determined to give Peter Lovesey another try, so I figured Bloodhounds, featuring Lovesey's current series detective, Superintendent Peter Diamond and also a locked room mystery - in fact the whole book could be seen as a tribute to John Dickson Carr. Shirley-Ann Miller joins... | ||
