This is a bloody psychological wild ride of a book, set in 70s’ Chicago, and centred on crime, families and power plays
Category Archives: Twentieth Century Fiction
A Fatal Gilded High Note by Cecelia Tichi
Another enjoyable murder mystery from the Gilded Age with Val and Roddy DeVere who investigate a suspicious death in a box at the opera
Sweet Caress by William Boyd
William Boyd delivers again – great story, vividly told, with an engaging and strong female narrator enhanced by “lost” photos
Dubliners by James Joyce
James Joyce has never really appealed to me, I am sorry to say, so what did I make of Dubliners?