SHARP PRIVATE EYE thriller follows a detective and his childhood best friend, now an investigative reporter, to Mexico on the trail of a seasoned criminal. Lots of relatable characters and some great descriptions. SOLID B
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“Gordon Daviot” was courted by Hollywood; “Josephine Tey” was ‘the crime writer’s crimewriter’; & “F. Craigie Howe” might have become a household name too if Elizabeth MacKintosh—the Inverness writer behind all three pseudonyms—had survived beyond her 57th year
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“Questions of identity permeate her novels. […] Masks and the identities they hide run through her work like the unifying thread in a tapestry.”
Val McDermid on how Josephine Tey opened up the crime novel for contemporary writers
Val McDermid discusses Josephine Tey’s MISS PYM DISPOSES with Andy Miller and John Mitchinson in a collaboration between the Backlisted Podcast & Aberdeen’s 2021 Granite Noir festival