At first glance, Gaby Mortimer could almost be a character from “Having It and Eating It”, the novel with which Durrant made her name. She’s the sort of woman who has it all, but, out jogging one morning she discovers a dead body, and her perfect life begins to unravel.
Schlagwort-Archive: The Observer
Portrait: Gillian Flynn
The Missouri-born novelist’s thriller “Gone Girl” is not only a phenomenon, but is also tipped by many to win the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Rezension: Kate Atkinson: “Life After Life”
This novel is constantly acute and real and touching about familial and (especially) sibling love. Impressively – and unusually – some of her most engaging and best-realised characters are the good, kind, decent ones.
Rezension: Paul Collicutt: “The Murder Mile”
Paul Collicutt’s story is set in Arizona, 1954, in the world of middle-distance running, and comes with a short foreword by Steve Ovett.A beautifully illustrated detective story that unfolds alongside the race to break the four-minute mile.
Rezension: Chris Morgan Jones : “The Jackal’s Share”
With “The Jackal’s Share” it becomes clear that, actually, Morgan Jones is writing detective as well as spy fiction. The novel is as much Raymond Chandler as John le Carré; as much “The Big Sleep” as “The Spy Who Came In From The Cold”.