Currently reading
Perfect Strangers
The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir
The Captain's Daughter
The Trader of Saigon
Someone: A Novel
The Wolves of Midwinter
A Killing of Angels
Gravity of Birds Pb
The Return
The Twenty-Seventh City
The Unquiet Heart
"Sure enough, like a bad gangster movie, Eve ran on to the pavement with a pistol in her hand"This is a strange book. It's set in 1946 London but reads like a hard-boiled crime noir with a femme fatale. The voice of the author keeps reminding me of better crime novels of a later era and sounds way too modern for the 1940s.
It's action driven so there's not much build up of atmosphere or a sense of surroundings, although Nazis and Germans are ever present. I believe the word for such genre is pastiche?
