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ellen_datlow Oct. 11th, 2007 03:21 pm)
ellen_datlow Oct. 11th, 2007 03:21 pm)In the Woods by Tana French (Viking) is another solid debut novel. In 1984, two children playing in a suburban British woods go missing, and the third child, found with blood in his sneakers and almost catatonic, has no memory of what happened to his two friends. Twenty years later that survivor has become a detective on the murder squad and is faced with a child murder in the same woods. The ensuing psychological suspense tale has a teeny hint of the supernatural that provides a thrill of extra creepiness.
Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett (Knopf) is the third in the remarkable series of mysteries featuring the Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep. The novel begins with the detective viewing what is apparently a snuff film, the victim being a former lover with whom he was (and still is) obsessed. The story initially seems pretty straightforward but as with the two earlier novels, it becomes richer and more complex ultimately twisting into web of cruelty, vengeance, mysticism, and magic.
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes (Victor Gollancz) is an entertaining tale about a conspiracy afoot in Victorian England and the stage conjuror who is called up on to save the threatened city of London. The utterly unreliable narrator, the tall, silent titular character, and a cast of the grotesque makes for magical, bloody fun.
Bangkok Haunts by John Burdett (Knopf) is the third in the remarkable series of mysteries featuring the Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep. The novel begins with the detective viewing what is apparently a snuff film, the victim being a former lover with whom he was (and still is) obsessed. The story initially seems pretty straightforward but as with the two earlier novels, it becomes richer and more complex ultimately twisting into web of cruelty, vengeance, mysticism, and magic.
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes (Victor Gollancz) is an entertaining tale about a conspiracy afoot in Victorian England and the stage conjuror who is called up on to save the threatened city of London. The utterly unreliable narrator, the tall, silent titular character, and a cast of the grotesque makes for magical, bloody fun.
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Featured an investigator hired by a widow to investigate a potential snuff film she found in her husband's safe. At the start, the investigator is so psyched out by the brutality, he can hardly watch, but as he watches more and more, he becomes blunted to it, begins to notice little details like a shadow on a wall.
eh, anyway, it reminded me of that. I've heard good things about The Somnambulist, will have to try and track it down.
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Re: The Somnambulist not brilliant but a good read.
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