Books & Culture Podcast Features Pattern of Wounds

Books and Culture's John Wilson is an omnivorous reader, which is one of the things that makes his reviews such a pleasure. He makes the kind of thoughtful connections the rest of us are likely to miss. When Back on Murder came out, he reviewed it for the Books and Culture website, and now he's devoted an episode of the B&C podcast to Pattern of Wounds. (To link directly to the mp3, click here.)

Authors are supposed to play it cool where reviews are concerned. If making your wife drop everything to listen to a ten minute podcast about your book while going "uh huh" and "that's right" in the background is cool, then I succeeded wonderfully.

Naturally I am delighted to have him recommending the series -- he thinks Pattern of Wounds is even better than Back on Murder (I do, too) -- but the podcast is worth listening to for his observations about the "seething anger" underlying so much crime fiction, too. Plenty there to think about.