![]() ![]() Regular readers of this blog will know that I'm a fan of the genre and these books feature regularly in my end-of-year book lists. They're gripping and have good characterisation (albeit with a predominance of demon-ridden detectives), and in the case of detective series, they provide a steady stream of literary entertainment. Well-written detective novels are a great choice for lockdown reading matter. But when I realised it was part of a series, I decided to start with the first DC Maeve Kerrigan novel instead. Then I came across Jane Casey's new novel, The Cutting Place, which was being serialised in The Times. I started re-reading one of the set texts from my Italian degree - Boccaccio's Decameron, which is delightfully bawdy and lockdown-relevant, but also very long. Part of the problem was that I was being too ambitious. ![]()
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