{"id":673,"date":"2007-11-12T12:31:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T12:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=673"},"modified":"2011-09-17T16:25:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T21:25:47","slug":"mysteryfiction_-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/11\/mysteryfiction_-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Mystery\/Fiction: “He Kills Coppers” by Jake Arnott"},"content":{"rendered":"

Loosely a follow-up to The Long Firm<\/A>, although the connection is more tenuous than in your average “series”.<\/p>\n

Again follows a variety of characters with many different narrators, different motivations. All warped or twisted, all involved in something unsavory despite their best intentions. There’s a little trick at the end I really liked.<\/p>\n

The scenes with Billy in the forest, digging out a bunker, meeting up with the gypsy-types, really really reminded me of another book I dug — I know it’s one of the John Madden mysteries by Rennie Airth although I’m not sure which one.<\/p>\n

The previous book was a lot more “social commentary” and “criminal biography” in feel. This one’s focus is slightly different, feels more like a combination of “police procedural” and “investigative reporting”.<\/p>\n

One more to go (in this trilogy)! Glad I decided to rescue these off the TBR shelf. Enjoying them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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