Silly Little Country

'Light of Day' moving off the charts

Well, I enjoyed that novel. But it felt like a long short story with a couple of small conceits.

The idea of a broken-down detective, with a worthwhile person trying to keep him going, but throwing his life away for a criminal woman he was working for, is not quite new. (Hmmm, Maltese Falcon.)

I LOVED reading the book. But this was in a short story way, where the satisfactions were surprising connections at key moments.

In the end, I started out sympathising with the main character and then found him tiresome. 100 pages less wowld have been perfect.

But in the end I enjoyed every mischievous sentence!

posted by Alan Adamson @ 8:30 PM