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A glance at the first novels of writers such as Graham Greene is a reminder that consummate mastery does not always manifest itself with early work. Mick Herron’s current writing is something unique: the spycraft of John le Carré refracted through the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, humour wedded to an acute sense of tension.
Mathews hands in his badge, but his subsequent search for a missing student leads to Thornhill, a town steeped in political corruption. Locke’s Black Water Rising enjoyed copious encomiums and heralded her as one of the key African-American writers of crime fiction, focusing on the US Black experience but with a universal reach; her juggling of societal injustice and a turbulent crime narrative is as sure-footed as ever.
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