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Transmigration of Bodies

Yuri Herrera and Lisa Dillman

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A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need...

The City & The City

China Miéville

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When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Bes el, somewhere...

David McK (3505 KP) rated The Royalist (William Falkland #1) in Books

Apr 18, 2022

Set during the period of the English Civil Wars, I have to say that I found this to be rather unusual in that it is not about (per se) the wars themselves: rather, it is set in the New Model Army camp over a winter period, between hostilities, with William Falkland (the Royalist of the title) plucked from his prison cell by none other than Oliver Cromwell himself and sent to investigate reports of suicides/disturbances in the camp.

Reading very much like a ECW version of a whodunnit, with the author - in the afterword - not at all shy to point out the influences of the hard-boiled detective hero/film noir of the 40s (think Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler) on this work.