Silver Meadow: A Kathy and Brock mystery
Allen & Unwin, $24.95 pb, 346 pp
Silver Meadow by Barry Maitland & An Uncertain Death by Carolyn Morwood
Five pages from the end of Silver Meadow, the hair on the back of my neck stood up, an effect not only of the thrilling denouement, but also a genuine frisson of aesthetic delight at a perfectly judged conclusion. Silver Meadow is a book which deserves to be noticed, not only by devotees of the police procedural (it is at least as good as anything Rendell, James or Rankin have written) but also by anyone with an interest in narrative form, the politics of contemporary space and/or rampant consumerism. This is a ‘seriously’ good book about sex and shopping.
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