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Renate Fechter #1
Accidents Will Happen
By day, England's Julian Rathbone is very much the serious novelist: he was twice a finalist for that country's prestigious Booker Prize. By night he becomes the author of political, darkly quirky thrillers like Accidents Will Happen, published as a handsome paperback original. Renata Fechter is a dedicated police officer in a German city very much like Bremen. Because of a fight with her corrupt boss, Renata is put in charge of the Eco-Cops, a crew of misfits and losers who investigate (and often sweep under the rug) crimes involving industrial pollution. The murder of a gay activist starts off a complicated story of industrial intrigue. Fechter's sexy, somewhat shady Italian lover turns out to be involved in the illicit dumping of nuclear waste, and soon Renata is up to her neck in the mess. Another good Rathbone thriller, Sand Blind, is also available in paperback.
256 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1997
About the author
Julian Rathbone
68 books24 followersJulian Christopher Rathbone was born in 1935 in Blackheath, southeast London. His great-uncle was the actor and great Sherlock Holmes interpreter Basil Rathbone, although they never met.
The prolific author Julian Rathbone was a writer of crime stories, mysteries and thrillers who also turned his hand to the historical novel, science fiction and even horror — and much of his writing had strong political and social dimensions.
He was difficult to pigeonhole because his scope was so broad. Arguably, his experiment with different genres and thus his refusal to be typecast cost him a wider audience than he enjoyed. Just as his subject matter changed markedly over the years, so too did his readers and his publishers.
Among his more than 40 books two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Both were historical novels: first King Fisher Lives, a taut adventure revolving around a guru figure, in 1976, and, secondly, Joseph, set during the Peninsular War and written in an 18th-century prose style, in 1979. But Rathbone never quite made it into the wider public consciousness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_R...
The prolific author Julian Rathbone was a writer of crime stories, mysteries and thrillers who also turned his hand to the historical novel, science fiction and even horror — and much of his writing had strong political and social dimensions.
He was difficult to pigeonhole because his scope was so broad. Arguably, his experiment with different genres and thus his refusal to be typecast cost him a wider audience than he enjoyed. Just as his subject matter changed markedly over the years, so too did his readers and his publishers.
Among his more than 40 books two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Both were historical novels: first King Fisher Lives, a taut adventure revolving around a guru figure, in 1976, and, secondly, Joseph, set during the Peninsular War and written in an 18th-century prose style, in 1979. But Rathbone never quite made it into the wider public consciousness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_R...
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