( XXXIX: John Connolly, The White Road )

Two follow-ups to John Connolly's Every Dead Thing (see here). There is distinctly a pattern emerging - employed on case he doesn't want to take on, people associated with the case are murdered, he calls on Angel and Louis, the police warn him off, he is confronted by one or more of the villains, he is forced to tell the police almost everything, ( Read more... )

I) Reginald Hill, The Death of Dalziel (2007)

I'd forgotten this existed until a stray comment in a year end round up about Rebus, ah, yes, a column by Mark Bloody Lawson (and maybe I'd not read a review of it in The Guardian by Mark Bloody Lawson which led to the erasure). But there it was, second hand, and I pounced ( Read more... )