James Lee Burke's Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Lost Get-Back Boogie takes a bit of a kicking from Amazon's readers' reviews, but Crime Always Pays reckons it's one of his best of the non-Robicheaux novels ... Meanwhile, 'Cheer Up Weepy' Gene Kerrigan's latest, The Midnight Choir, is superior stuff to the normal police procedural according to a host of reviewers, not least of whom are the overworked Crime Always Pays staff (above, offering Weepy Gene the ultra-rare 'four-thumbs-aloft' treatment). Incidentally, if you fancy reviewing recent Irish crime fiction novels at the standard rate of one decapitated jelly-baby per paragraph, drop us a line in the comment box and we'll get back to you ...
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
This Week We're Reading ... The Lost Get-Back Boogie and The Midnight Choir
James Lee Burke's Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Lost Get-Back Boogie takes a bit of a kicking from Amazon's readers' reviews, but Crime Always Pays reckons it's one of his best of the non-Robicheaux novels ... Meanwhile, 'Cheer Up Weepy' Gene Kerrigan's latest, The Midnight Choir, is superior stuff to the normal police procedural according to a host of reviewers, not least of whom are the overworked Crime Always Pays staff (above, offering Weepy Gene the ultra-rare 'four-thumbs-aloft' treatment). Incidentally, if you fancy reviewing recent Irish crime fiction novels at the standard rate of one decapitated jelly-baby per paragraph, drop us a line in the comment box and we'll get back to you ...
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Declan Burke has published a number of novels, the most recent of which is ABSOLUTE ZERO COOL. As a journalist and critic, he writes and broadcasts on books and film for a variety of media outlets, including the Irish Times, RTE, the Irish Examiner and the Sunday Independent. He has an unfortunate habit of speaking about himself in the third person. All views expressed here are his own and are very likely to be contrary.
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