One Dead Hen gets the Nerd of Noir treatment over at
Spinetingler:
One Dead Hen is an oil-black comedy, with many of the biggest laughs (and I no-shit laughed audibly many times, in public even, like a fucking keep-your-kids-close creepo) coming from Blake's misunderstanding or pointed misrepresentation of a given situation. But while the comedy may keep you laughing (even when, say, Blake accidentally smothers someone to death in hopes of seeing if they were just pretending to be unconscious), Williams is also constructing a sly mystery around our hero, and it's up to the reader' careful attention to Blake's context clues (and some insane newspaper articles) to figure out what's really rotten in Mangel.
Also some great recent reviews at
You Would say That, Wouldn't You? and
The Paper Tiger's Roar Feed. Mucho grateful to all three of these top bods for taking the trouble. And to you, dear reader, for thinking about
checking the book out for yourself. Oh, you weren't, you were just checking the latest riot reports on Sky News.
Published on August 11, 2011 16:21