Another Italian detective, but this one’s home grown. Salvo Montalbano is a Sicilian police inspector and this is his first appearance in print.
The Shape of Water (Montalbano 1)
Andrea CamilleriPicador 2005, Paperback, 256 pages, £7.99
The story concerns a man found dead in a car in a wasteground well known as a trading place for prostitutes and drug dealers. [...]
Modern crime fiction doesn’t go in for humanity all that much. There are faults, for sure, but fondness and family bonds that aren’t late ripped apart from a threat from an avenging psychopath are rare.
A Venetian Reckoning
Donna LeonPan Books 1996, Mass Market Paperback, 240 pages, £6.99
Donna Leon’s Inspector Brunetti is the most human detective I’ve come across, [...]
Cormac McCarthy is one of those writers whose work I have long looked forward to diving into, but have held back for some reason or other. (In this case, because I want to read the body of work as a whole, preferably on some hazy sun-filled holiday.)
I read The Road last year and found it [...]
Black Hearts – full title: Black Hearts: One platoon’s descent into madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death – is the harrowing story of one company’s experience of war in Iraq. This company – Bravo Company of the Black Heart Brigade – is notable because four of its soldiers committed one of the highest-profile war crimes [...]
