05-30-2021, 06:11 AM
Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler
The Yeti gave this one to me with the threat there were a bunch more in the series. And as I started reading I got the feeling that I had read this before. Not enough to stop reading but just enough to think this is very familiar. Which probably detracted from my enjoyment of the book.
Someone is killing the cast at the Palace theater as they strive to put on a scandalous production of Orpheus. It is up to the logical May and the whimsical Bryant to find the killers. The book is set in the present and in 1940s London. The beginning and the end of May's and Bryants partnership. And also of the Peculiar Crimes Unit tasked with solving the odd crimes going on in London. There is an X-Files feel to the plot. And I had trouble keeping the characters straight for the longest time. Plus there is a lot of descriptions of the various spaces in the Palace Theater itself that I also found hard to keep straight. Maybe it's because of my advancing decrepitude.
I might read another in the series to see if I find more enjoyment in a fresh novel.
The Yeti gave this one to me with the threat there were a bunch more in the series. And as I started reading I got the feeling that I had read this before. Not enough to stop reading but just enough to think this is very familiar. Which probably detracted from my enjoyment of the book.
Someone is killing the cast at the Palace theater as they strive to put on a scandalous production of Orpheus. It is up to the logical May and the whimsical Bryant to find the killers. The book is set in the present and in 1940s London. The beginning and the end of May's and Bryants partnership. And also of the Peculiar Crimes Unit tasked with solving the odd crimes going on in London. There is an X-Files feel to the plot. And I had trouble keeping the characters straight for the longest time. Plus there is a lot of descriptions of the various spaces in the Palace Theater itself that I also found hard to keep straight. Maybe it's because of my advancing decrepitude.
I might read another in the series to see if I find more enjoyment in a fresh novel.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm