River of Darkness

Boy, what sour lemon awarded this page-turning murder mystery one lonely star? Ridiculous. Apparently this bitter reviewer said his copy had typos all over the place. Well, my copy did not. It's true, this book isn't high art, but it's a very fun read IF you like police procedurals set in rural Engl......more

I should not like this book. It's a police procedural with hardly any mystery to it: you know who the killer is right away, there's a lot of deaus ex machina dropping leads right in Detective John Madden's lap, and things so patently obvious you begin to wonder about the mental capacities of other i......more

A violent, gripping police-procedural set in 1921 England. A young girl is the only survivor when a family is brutally murdered and DI Madden gets the case. Airth has an excellent pacing as we follow Madden on his investigation, discovering clues that narrow the search for the murderer. In thriller......more

A pretty good British Scotland Yard type mystery, with the police searching for a maniacal killer. What separates this book from so many others is the horrible method of murder. Imagine, being in a comfortable house, on a cold, foggy night, when you hear a whistle...or do you? Then a man in a WWI unif......more

Good crime fiction and an eloquent description of the period between the wars.......more